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...course reading list will be the proper place for it, since--like Dreiser's other posthumous novel "The Bulwark"-- "The Stoic's" chief importance is historical rather than literary. The jacket blurb to the contrary, "The Stoic" simply does not reach the stature of "The Financier" or "The Titan," its predecessors in "The Trilogy of Desire." In concluding what Parrington called "a colossal study of the American businessman," Dreiser tells those familiar with the earlier volumes little they do not already know about Frank Algernon Cowperwood, his hero. As for the reader with a casual interest in the business mind...
...Dreiser left behind are the 134,000 that went into this novel, which his publishers say is to be the last. He never quite finished it, though he certainly worked long at it. The Stoic completes a trilogy he began in 1912 with The Financier, and continued in The Titan (1914). Like all Dreiser's novels, it is much chewed but badly digested: the product of his slow brooding on the injustices of life, clotted with unassimilated gobbets of ideas and massive lumps of earnest social purpose. The Stoic is as dated as a three-day-old cake...
...Marvel. Even to jaded voyagers, the Queen Mary was still a marvel of naval architecture. From her straight, businesslike stem to her bulging cruiser stern the Queen represents a blending of many ancient and modern arts. Her builders had to wrestle with the problem of constructing a hull of titan strength to withstand almost unimaginable strains as the seas pass under her 1,020 feet, lifting her first by the bow, then amidships, then astern. The propulsion engineers used the power of 50 locomotives to drive the four screws, each 20 feet across and weighing 35 tons, which are, nevertheless...
Flexing its muscles, the new titan promptly got down to business. The first objective was to get ready for negotiations next March, when contracts expire for most of its 225,000 operators, linemen, technicians and maintenance men. As a whopping independent union-second only to the Railway Brotherhoods-N.F.T.W. felt strong enough to shoot for the works: union shop, dues checkoff, "substantial" wage boosts...
...keenest nose for sniffing out other people's profitable businesses, and its most carefree hand in grabbing them for his huge Hermann Göring Works. Now he had been surpassed. But Göring, like most Germans, had not yet heard of the new economic titan...