1919 By John Dos Passos Boston: A MARINER BOOK, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1991 From the 1932 original ISBN: 0-618-05682-3 380 pages. ... John Dos Passos hoped to show how Americans of all kinds were responding to the bustling mess of modernity. 1919, #2 in the U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos is a curious mix of literary devices, some of which were fairly experimental when the book first appeared but can now seem rather tiresome. With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his "vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America" (Forum), lauded on publication of the first volume not only for its scope, but also for its groundbreaking style. “you dont like the stars in Old Glory Then go back to your land across the sea To the land from which you came Whatever be its name” ― John dos Passos, 1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A. Trilogy: 2 Other articles where 1919 is discussed: U.S.A.: …up to World War I; 1919 (1932), dealing with the war and the critical year of the Treaty of Versailles; and The Big Money (1936), which moves from the boom of the 1920s to the bust of the 1930s. It follows the same pattern that one finds in the first volume. USA (The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money) Dos Passos reinforced … What John Dos Passos’s “1919” Got Right About 2019. USA (The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money) [John Dos Passos] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Comments by Bob Corbett June 2014 This is volume two of John Dos Passos’ trilogy, U.S.A.