The 42nd Parallel Author:John dos Passos The first novel of the monumental U.S.A. trilogy, The 42nd Parallel, opens amid the bright hopes and ominous foreshadowings of the dawn of the twentieth century in America. The novel's subject is America, as represented by her great men, by her popular culture, by the autobiographical evocations of an unseen author, and by the lives of vividly c... more »reated fictional characters. ....« less