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...Prospect Before Us is the latest stage on Dos Passes' long road back. It is a calm, wide, sometimes rather hazy look at the democratic vista from where Dos Passos now stands, at a position close to that of the late Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis-champion of the individual, implacable foe of organized Bigness. The book presents-as an imaginary series of movie-illustrated lectures followed by questions from the audiences-a series of reports on countries Dos Passos has visited recently (Britain, Argentina, Chile) and on recent happenings in the U.S. The lecturer-audience exchanges, which seem...
...PROSPECT BEFORE Us (375 pp.)-John Dos Passes-Houghton Mifflin...
...young man of whom Novelist John Dos Passes once wrote this passionate paragraph was John Dos Passes. Fast but not fast enough, far but not far enough to satisfy his rage to live, John Dos Passes has hurried about the world, a perennial seeker after the truth about his time...
...surveyed that truth from top to bottom. Born 54 years ago on the genteel upper slopes of U.S. society, Dos Passes got a long look at the depths as a World War I ambulance driver. He came back to a U.S. racked by social and economic change, threw himself into the defense of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Before long, like many another idealist of his generation, Dos Passos had plunged deep into the murk of Marxism. The murk slightly distorted his otherwise vivid, sprawling trilogy of 20th Century America, U.S.A., which remains his most notable contribution to U.S. writing...
...Dos Passos went to postwar Britain to see how socialism had panned out after several years of hard sifting by history. He shook the official guides, went from end to end of the United Kingdom on his own legs and resources, catching impressions. One gloomy theme ran through the whole trip: socialism in Britain is strangling in dividual liberty in the historic citadel of liberty. Many a farmer and small business man told Dos Passos what an intellectual phrased most sharply: "England's dead, quite dead, quite. We're the lost island of the Atlantic, sunk in everlasting...