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Reader recommendation: The 42nd Parallel

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I鈥檓 taking a second look at John Dos Passos鈥檚 鈥USA鈥 trilogy, starting with The 42nd Parallel. When Dos Passos wrote this in the late 1920s, he saw the United States as 鈥渢wo nations鈥 鈥 one for the privileged and one of the powerless. The more things change, the more they remain the same.

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