Manhattan Transfer Author:John Dos Passos "What is central in Dos Passos," wrote Alfred Kazin in 1942, "is not merely the fascination with the total operations of society, but his unyielding opposition to all its degradations." Out of this "fascination" and "unyielding opposition" came Manhattan Transfer, a many-faceted chronicle of New York City in the early nineteen-twenties: the pe... more »ople who built it, the people who were destroyed by it. It is a compassionate record of a turbulent and vital period in American history.« less