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Having repudiated the two totalitarian extremes, Dos Passos faced the tough job of making the next novel in his series a defense of his liberal values. Next week, after delays caused by Dos Passos' war reporting and a highway accident which took his wife's life and cost him an eye, that novel will come out. The Grand Design contains the expected defense of liberalism, but it speaks in a worried, hesitant, uncertain voice in which there is little of the power of U.S.A...
...GRAND DESIGN (440 pp.)-John Dos Passos-Houghton Mifflln...
...Grand Design is one of those books that can be read by itself, as a slow movement of a symphony can be played by itself, but will be best understood by those who know what went on before it. With The Grand Design, Dos Passes returns to a series of novels he began ten years...
...Break. Three weeks after U.S.A. was hailed by the fellow-traveling League of American Writers in 1937, Dos Passes lost his appeal for Communists when he attacked "the intricate and bloody machinery of Kremlin policy." He began a new series of novels that were to be as full of the liberal's soul-searching doubts as U.S.A. had been of the radical's passionate certainties...
Four years later, in Number One, Dos Passos picked up the story of Glenn's brother, Tyler, who lost his soul through power-hungry cynicism. After working as political handyman for a hillbilly demagogue, Tyler found himself as defeated in America as Glenn had been in Spain...