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The Big Money, third in The Great Trilogy U.S.A.
The Big Money third in The Great Trilogy USA Author:John Dos Passos America in the boom years of the twenties is the setting of The Big Money. Hog-wild material prosperity rules the land and cripples the national life. Amid a vivid, fevered atmosphere of big business and bootleg booze, tinsel glamour and grinding injustice, Dos Passos guides his characters - a young mid-Westerner destroyed by his own success, ... more »an amoral trollop-turned-Hollywood star, an advertising boy-wonder on a careening treadmill of corruption, an idealistic girl discovering the facts of life - toward destinies that make a mockery of the American dream.« less