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Most Likely to Succeed, by John Dos Passos. Fellow-traveling liberals skewered with considerable skill (TIME, Sept...
MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED (310 pp.)-John Dos Passos-Prentice-HalI ($3.SO...
...hero of John Dos Passos' new novel, and in his person, it seems, the author sees all the fierce young social spirits who came roaring out of the '20s got soft and successful in the '30s, dangled guiltily between big money and little treason, and have recently been hitting the sawdust trail in congressional committees...
...Press Clatter. Most Likely to Succeed is perhaps the most savage satire against the gulliberal so far produced by an American. Dos Passos is angry, but he shifts his anger into a high gear of farce, at least for the first 200 pages. Dos Passos writes with a giddy, go-to-press clatter that has not been heard in his books since the '20s, and the mood of Village radicalism in those days is brilliantly laid...
...doesn't change but only gets more so, readers may begin to wish that the angry author were less so. As a man who once journeyed a long way with the Communists, but decisively broke with the comrades' ideals earlier than most reformed fellow-travelers, Author Dos Passos, now 58, at length starts to sound less like a social critic than a disappointed lover...