John Dos Passos (Jan. 14, 1896 - 1970), whose epic experimental novels in the U.S.A. trilogy: The 42nd Parallel (1930), Nineteen Nineteen (1932), and The Big Money (1936) are Modernist classics…
“They have clubbed us off the streets they are stronger they are rich they hire and fire the politicians the newspapereditors the old judges the small men with reputations the collegepresidents the wardheelers (listen businessmen collegepresidents judges America will not forget her betrayers) they hire the men with guns the uniforms the policecars the patrolwagons all right you have won you will kill the brave men our friends tonight (author’s punctuation)” ― John Dos Passos, The Big Money
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