| Author | John Dos Passos |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
| Publisher Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Copyright Holder | John Dos Passos, Houghton Mifflin |
| Copyright Renewed By | John Dos Passos |
| Cover Artist | George Grosz |
| Photography Archive | Snark International |
| Printed by | Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd |
| Series | U.S.A. Trilogy |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Great Britain |
| Copyright | 1930 |
| Copyright | 1932 |
| Copyright | 1933 |
| Copyright | 1934 |
| Copyright | 1935 |
| Copyright | 1936 |
| Copyright | 1937 |
| Copyright | 1946 |
| Copyright Renewed | 1958 |
| Copyright Renewed | 1960 |
| This Edition Published | 1966 |
| Reprinted | 1981 |
| Pages / Font | 1184 pages / Linotype Times Roman |
| ISBN | 0 14 00.2418 2 |
| Price | U.K. £4.95 / Aust. $11.95 |
| Chapters | CONTENTS
THE 42ND PARALLEL
MAC
Newsreel 1 It was that emancipated race
The Camera Eye (1) when you walk along the street you have to step carefully always
The Camera Eye (2) we hurry wallowing like in a boat
MAC
Newsreel 2 Come on and hear
The Camera Eye (3) O qu'il a des beaux yeux said the lady
Lover of Mankind
The Camera Eye (4) riding backwards through the rain
MAC
Newsreel 3 'IT TAKES NERVE TO LIVE IN THIS WORLD'
The Camera Eye (5) and we played the battle of Port Arthur
Newsreel 4 I met my love in Alamo
The Camera Eye (6) Go it go it said Mr Linwood
Newsreel 5 BUGS DRIVE OUT BIOLOGIST
MAC
Newsreel 6 PARIS SHOCKED AT LAST
The Camera Eye (7) skating on the pond next the silver company's mills
The Plant Wizard
Newsreel 7 SAYS THIS IS CENTURY WHERE BILLIONS AND BRAINS ARE TO RULE
The Camera Eye (8) you sat on the bed unlacing your shoes
MAC
The Camera Eye (9) all day the fertilizer smelt something awful
Big Bill
The Camera Eye (10) the old major who used to take me to the Capitol
MAC
Newsreel 8 Professor Ferrer, former director of the Modern School
The Camera Eye (11) the Pennypackers went to the Presbyterian Church
Newsreel 9 FORFEIT STARS BY DRINKING
MAC
The Camera Eye (12) when everybody went away for a trip
Newsreel 10 MOON'S PATENT IS FIZZLE
The Camera Eye (13) he was a towboat captain and he knew the river
JANEY
The Camera Eye (14) Sunday nights when we had fishballs and baked beans
Newsreel 11 the government of the United States must insist
JANEY
The Camera Eye (15) in the month of the Schuylkill
Newsreel 12 GREEKS IN BATTLE FLEE BEFORE COPS
The Boy Orator of the Platte
The Camera Eye (16) it was hot as a bakeoven going through the canal
J. WARD MOOREHOUSE
The Camera Eye (17) the spring you could see Halley's Comet
Newsreel 13 I was in front of the national palace
ELEANOR STODDARD
The Camera Eye (18) she was a very fashionable lady
ELEANOR STODDARD
The Camera Eye (19) the methodist minister's wife was a tall thin woman
Newsreel 14 BOMBARDIER STOPS AUSTRALIAN
Emperor of the Carribbean
The Camera Eye (20) when the streetcarmen went out on strike
J. WARD MOOREHOUSE
The Camera Eye (21) that August it never rained a drop
Newsreel 15 lights go out as 'Home Sweet Home'
Prince of Peace
The Camera Eye (22) all week the fog clung to the sea
J. WARD MOOREHOUSE
Newsreel 16 the Philadelphian had completed the thirteenth lap
The Camera Eye (23) this friend of mother's was a very lovely
ELEANOR STODDARD
The Camera Eye (24) raining in historic Quebec it was raining
JANEY
The Electrical Wizard
The Camera Eye (25) those spring nights the streetcar wheels screech
Newsreel 17 an attack by a number of hostile airships
MAC
Proteus
JANEY
The Camera Eye (26) the garden was crowded and outside
Newsreel 18 Goodbye, Piccadilly, farewell, Leicester Square
ELEANOR STODDARD
Newsreel 19 U.S. AT WAR
The Camera Eye (27) there were priests and nuns on the Espagne
Fighting Bob
CHARLEY ANDERSON
NINETEEN NINETEEN
JOE WILLIAMS
Newsreel 20 Oh the infantree the infantree
The Camera Eye (28) when the telegram came that she was dying
Playboy
JOE WILLIAMS
Newsreel 21 Goodbye Broadway Hello France
The Camera Eye (29) the raindrops fall one by one out of the horsechestnut tree
RICHARD ELLSWORTH SAVAGE
Newsreel 22 COMING YEAR PROMISES REBIRTH OF RAILROADS
The Camera Eye (30) remembering the gray crooked fingers
Randolph Bourne
Newsreel 23 If you don't like your Uncle Sammy
EVELINE HUTCHINS
The Camera Eye (31) a mattress covered with something from Vantine's
EVELINE HUTCHINS
Newsreel 24 it is difficult to realize the colossal scale
The Camera Eye (32) à quatorze heures précisément
The Happy Warrior
The Camera Eye (33) eleven thousand registered harlots
JOE WILLIAMS
The Camera Eye (34) his voice was three thousand miles away
Newsreel 25 General Pershing's forces today occupied
A Hoosier Quixote
Newsreel 26 EUROPE ON KNIFE EDGE
RICHARD ELLSWORTH SAVAGE
Newsreel 27 HER WOUNDED HERO OF WAR A FRAUD
The Camera Eye (35) there were always two cats
EVELINE HUTCHINS
Newsreel 28 Oh the eagles they fly high
JOE WILLIAMS
Newsreel 29 the arrival of the news
The Camera Eye (36) when we emptied the rosies
Meester Veelson
Newsreel 30 MONSTER GUNS REMOVED?
The Camera Eye (37) alphabetically according to rank
Newsreel 31 washing and dressing hastily
DAUGHTER
Newsreel 32 GOLDEN VOICE OF CARUSO SWELLS VICTORY SONG
The Camera Eye (38) sealed signed and delivered
Newsreel 33 CAN'T RECALL KILLING SISTER
EVELINE HUTCHINS
Newsreel 34 WHOLE WORLD IS SHORT OF PLATINUM
The House of Morgan
Newsreel 35 the Grand Prix de la Victoire
The Camera Eye (39) daylight enlarges out of
Newsreel 36 TO THE GLORY OF FRANCE ETERNAL
RICHARD ELLSWORTH SAVAGE
Newsreel 37 SOVIET GUARDS DISPLACED
The Camera Eye (40) I walked all over town
Newsreel 38 C'est la lutte finale
DAUGHTER
Newsreel 39 spectacle of ruined villages and tortured earth
The Camera Eye (41) aren't you coming to the anarchist picnic
Newsreel 40 CRIMINAL IN PAJAMAS SAWS BARS
Joe Hill
BEN COMPTON
Newsreel 41 in British Colonial Office quarters
The Camera Eye (42) four hours we casuals pile up scrapiron
Newsreel 42 it was a gala day for Seattle
Paul Bunyan
RICHARD ELLSWORTH SAVAGE
Newsreel 43 the placards borne by the radicals
The Body of an American
THE BIG MONEY
CHARLEY ANDERSON
Newsreel 44 Yankee Doodle that melodee
CHARLEY ANDERSON
Newsreel 45 'Twarn't for powder and for storebought hair
The American Plan
Newsreel 46 these are the men for whom the rabid
The Camera Eye (43) throat tightens when the redstacked steamer
Newsreel 47 boy seeking future offered
The Camera Eye (44) the unnamed arrival
CHARLEY ANDERSON
Newsreel 48 truly the Steel Corporation
Tin Lizzie
Newsreel 49 Jack o' Diamonds Jack o' Diamonds
CHARLEY ANDERSON
Newsreel 50 Don't blame it all on Broadway
The Bitter Drink
Newsreel 51 The sunshine drifted from our alley
MARY FRENCH
The Camera Eye (45) the narrow yellow room teems with talk
MARY FRENCH
The Camera Eye (46) walk the streets and walk the streets
Newsreel 52 assembled to a service for the dear departed
Art and Isadora
Newsreel 53 Bye bye blackbird
MARGO DOWLING
Newsreel 54 there was nothing significant about the morning's trading
Adagio Dancer
Newsreel 55 THRONGS IN STREETS
The Camera Eye (47) sirens bloom in the fog over the harbor
CHARLEY ANDERSON
Newsreel 56 his first move was to board a fast train for Miami
The Camera Eye (48) westbound to Havana Puerto-Mexico Galveston
MARGO DOWLING
Newsreel 57 the psychic removed all clothing
MARGO DOWLING
Newsreel 58 In my dreams it always seems
The Campers at Kitty Hawk
Newsreel 59 the stranger first coming to Detroit
CHARLEY ANDERSON
Newsreel 60 Was Celine to blame?
MARGO DOWLING
Newsreel 61 High high high Up in the hills
CHARLEY ANDERSON
Newsreel 62 STARS PORTEND EVIL
MARGO DOWLING
Newsreel 63 but a few minutes later this false land disappeared
Architect
Newsreel 64 WEIRD FISH DRAWN FROM SARGASSO SEA
The Camera Eye (49) walking from Plymouth to North Plymouth
Newsreel 65 STORM TIES UP SUBWAY; FLOODS AND LIGHTNING DARKEN CITY
MARY FRENCH
Newsreel 66 HOLMES DENIES STAY
The Camera Eye (50) they have clubbed us off the streets
Newsreel 67 when things upset, there's always chaos
Poor Little Rich Boy
RICHARD ELLSWORTH SAVAGE
Newsreel 68 WALL STREET STUNNED
The Camera Eye (51) at the head of the valley in the dark of the hills
Power Superpower
MARY FRENCH
Vag CONTENTS
THE 42ND PARALLEL
MAC
Newsreel 1 It was that emancipated race
The Camera Eye (1) when you walk along the street you have to step carefully always
The Camera Eye (2) we hurry wallowing like in a boat
MAC
Newsreel 2 Come on and hear
The Camera Eye (3) O qu'il a des beaux yeux said the lady
Lover of Mankind
The Camera Eye (4) riding backwards through the rain
MAC
Newsreel 3 'IT TAKES NERVE TO LIVE IN THIS WORLD'
The Camera Eye (5) and we played the battle of Port Arthur
Newsreel 4 I met my love in Alamo
The Camera Eye (6) Go it go it said Mr Linwood
Newsreel 5 BUGS DRIVE OUT BIOLOGIST
MAC
Newsreel 6 PARIS SHOCKED AT LAST
The Camera Eye (7) skating on the pond next the silver company's mills
The Plant Wizard
Newsreel 7 SAYS THIS IS CENTURY WHERE BILLIONS AND BRAINS ARE TO RULE
The Camera Eye (8) you sat on the bed unlacing your shoes
MAC
The Camera Eye (9) all day the fertilizer smelt something awful
Big Bill
The Camera Eye (10) the old major who used to take me to the Capitol
MAC
Newsreel 8 Professor Ferrer, former director of the Modern School
The Camera Eye (11) the Pennypackers went to the Presbyterian Church
Newsreel 9 FORFEIT STARS BY DRINKING
MAC
The Camera Eye (12) when everybody went away for a trip
Newsreel 10 MOON'S PATENT IS FIZZLE
The Camera Eye (13) he was a towboat captain and he knew the river
JANEY
The Camera Eye (14) Sunday nights when we had fishballs and baked beans
Newsreel 11 the government of the United States must insist
JANEY
The Camera Eye (15) in the month of the Schuylkill
Newsreel 12 GREEKS IN BATTLE FLEE BEFORE COPS
The Boy Orator of the Platte
The Camera Eye (16) it was hot as a bakeoven going through the canal
J. WARD MOOREHOUSE
The Camera Eye (17) the spring you could see Halley's Comet
Newsreel 13 I was in front of the national palace
ELEANOR STODDARD
The Camera Eye (18) she was a very fashionable lady
ELEANOR STODDARD
The Camera Eye (19) the methodist minister's wife was a tall thin woman
Newsreel 14 BOMBARDIER STOPS AUSTRALIAN
Emperor of the Carribbean
The Camera Eye (20) when the streetcarmen went out on strike
J. WARD MOOREHOUSE
The Camera Eye (21) that August it never rained a drop
Newsreel 15 lights go out as 'Home Sweet Home'
Prince of Peace
The Camera Eye (22) all week the fog clung to the sea
J. WARD MOOREHOUSE
Newsreel 16 the Philadelphian had completed the thirteenth lap
The Camera Eye (23) this friend of mother's was a very lovely
ELEANOR STODDARD
The Camera Eye (24) raining in historic Quebec it was raining
JANEY
The Electrical Wizard
The Camera Eye (25) those spring nights the streetcar wheels screech
Newsreel 17 an attack by a number of hostile airships
MAC
Proteus
JANEY
The Camera Eye (26) the garden was crowded and outside
Newsreel 18 Goodbye, Piccadilly, farewell, Leicester Square
ELEANOR STODDARD
Newsreel 19 U.S. AT WAR
The Camera Eye (27) there were priests and nuns on the Espagne
Fighting Bob
CHARLEY ANDERSON
NINETEEN NINETEEN
JOE WILLIAMS
Newsreel 20 Oh the infantree the infantree
The Camera Eye (28) when the telegram came that she was dying
Playboy
JOE WILLIAMS
Newsreel 21 Goodbye Broadway Hello France
The Camera Eye (29) the raindrops fall one by one out of the horsechestnut tree
RICHARD ELLSWORTH SAVAGE
Newsreel 22 COMING YEAR PROMISES REBIRTH OF RAILROADS
The Camera Eye (30) remembering the gray crooked fingers
Randolph Bourne
Newsreel 23 If you don't like your Uncle Sammy
EVELINE HUTCHINS
The Camera Eye (31) a mattress covered with something from Vantine's
EVELINE HUTCHINS
Newsreel 24 it is difficult to realize the colossal scale
The Camera Eye (32) à quatorze heures précisément
The Happy Warrior
The Camera Eye (33) eleven thousand registered harlots
JOE WILLIAMS
The Camera Eye (34) his voice was three thousand miles away
Newsreel 25 General Pershing's forces today occupied
A Hoosier Quixote
Newsreel 26 EUROPE ON KNIFE EDGE
RICHARD ELLSWORTH SAVAGE
Newsreel 27 HER WOUNDED HERO OF WAR A FRAUD
The Camera Eye (35) there were always two cats
EVELINE HUTCHINS
Newsreel 28 Oh the eagles they fly high
JOE WILLIAMS
Newsreel 29 the arrival of the news
The Camera Eye (36) when we emptied the rosies
Meester Veelson
Newsreel 30 MONSTER GUNS REMOVED?
The Camera Eye (37) alphabetically according to rank
Newsreel 31 washing and dressing hastily
DAUGHTER
Newsreel 32 GOLDEN VOICE OF CARUSO SWELLS VICTORY SONG
The Camera Eye (38) sealed signed and delivered
Newsreel 33 CAN'T RECALL KILLING SISTER
EVELINE HUTCHINS
Newsreel 34 WHOLE WORLD IS SHORT OF PLATINUM
The House of Morgan
Newsreel 35 the Grand Prix de la Victoire
The Camera Eye (39) daylight enlarges out of
Newsreel 36 TO THE GLORY OF FRANCE ETERNAL
RICHARD ELLSWORTH SAVAGE
Newsreel 37 SOVIET GUARDS DISPLACED
The Camera Eye (40) I walked all over town
Newsreel 38 C'est la lutte finale
DAUGHTER
Newsreel 39 spectacle of ruined villages and tortured earth
The Camera Eye (41) aren't you coming to the anarchist picnic
Newsreel 40 CRIMINAL IN PAJAMAS SAWS BARS
Joe Hill
BEN COMPTON
Newsreel 41 in British Colonial Office quarters
The Camera Eye (42) four hours we casuals pile up scrapiron
Newsreel 42 it was a gala day for Seattle
Paul Bunyan
RICHARD ELLSWORTH SAVAGE
Newsreel 43 the placards borne by the radicals
The Body of an American
THE BIG MONEY
CHARLEY ANDERSON
Newsreel 44 Yankee Doodle that melodee
CHARLEY ANDERSON
Newsreel 45 'Twarn't for powder and for storebought hair
The American Plan
Newsreel 46 these are the men for whom the rabid
The Camera Eye (43) throat tightens when the redstacked steamer
Newsreel 47 boy seeking future offered
The Camera Eye (44) the unnamed arrival
CHARLEY ANDERSON
Newsreel 48 truly the Steel Corporation
Tin Lizzie
Newsreel 49 Jack o' Diamonds Jack o' Diamonds
CHARLEY ANDERSON
Newsreel 50 Don't blame it all on Broadway
The Bitter Drink
Newsreel 51 The sunshine drifted from our alley
MARY FRENCH
The Camera Eye (45) the narrow yellow room teems with talk
MARY FRENCH
The Camera Eye (46) walk the streets and walk the streets
Newsreel 52 assembled to a service for the dear departed
Art and Isadora
Newsreel 53 Bye bye blackbird
MARGO DOWLING
Newsreel 54 there was nothing significant about the morning's trading
Adagio Dancer
Newsreel 55 THRONGS IN STREETS
The Camera Eye (47) sirens bloom in the fog over the harbor
CHARLEY ANDERSON
Newsreel 56 his first move was to board a fast train for Miami
The Camera Eye (48) westbound to Havana Puerto-Mexico Galveston
MARGO DOWLING
Newsreel 57 the psychic removed all clothing
MARGO DOWLING
Newsreel 58 In my dreams it always seems
The Campers at Kitty Hawk
Newsreel 59 the stranger first coming to Detroit
CHARLEY ANDERSON
Newsreel 60 Was Celine to blame?
MARGO DOWLING
Newsreel 61 High high high Up in the hills
CHARLEY ANDERSON
Newsreel 62 STARS PORTEND EVIL
MARGO DOWLING
Newsreel 63 but a few minutes later this false land disappeared
Architect
Newsreel 64 WEIRD FISH DRAWN FROM SARGASSO SEA
The Camera Eye (49) walking from Plymouth to North Plymouth
Newsreel 65 STORM TIES UP SUBWAY; FLOODS AND LIGHTNING DARKEN CITY
MARY FRENCH
Newsreel 66 HOLMES DENIES STAY
The Camera Eye (50) they have clubbed us off the streets
Newsreel 67 when things upset, there's always chaos
Poor Little Rich Boy
RICHARD ELLSWORTH SAVAGE
Newsreel 68 WALL STREET STUNNED
The Camera Eye (51) at the head of the valley in the dark of the hills
Power Superpower
MARY FRENCH
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| Notes | The 42nd Parallel first published in the U.S.A. in 1930 Nineteen Nineteen first published in the U.S.A. in 1932 The Big Money first published in the U.S.A. in 1936 The collected trilogy, U.S.A., first published in the U.S.A. in 1938 Published in Great Britain by Constable in 1938 Published in Penguin Books 1966 Reprinted 1973, 1976, 1978, 1981 Copyright © 1930, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, John Dos Passos Copyright © 1946, John Dos Passos and Houghton Mifflin Copyright © renewed 1958, 1960 John Dos Passos Made and printed in Great Britain by Watson & Viney Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks The cover shows a detail from the painting 'Manhattan Harbour' by George Grosz, by permission of the artist's estate (Snark International) |

