Volume 20, Number 19 · November 29, 1973
Dos Passos Divided
By Thomas R. Edwards
The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos
edited by Townsend Ludington
Gambit, 662 pp., $12.50
Dos Passos' Path to U.S.A.: A Political Biography 1912-1936
by Melvin Landsberg
Colorado Associated University Press, 292 pp., $10.00
John Dos Passos died in 1970, and it is startling to find him in our own world, deploring (in a letter to his daughter) 'this hysteria about Cambodia' and praising Nixon for 'the first rational military step in the whole war' taken 'in face of overwhelming Communist-inspired propaganda.' For years it had been much easier not to think about his puzzling case, the conversion of the radical author of Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer, and U.S.A. into the anticommunist apologist for America.
Review, 3556 words
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