U.S.A.
| Book | U.S.A. |
| 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 |
| 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) |
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