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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 19961006
Author:ROGER MILLER

U.S.A. By John Dos Passos; edited by Daniel Aaron and Townsend Ludington. Library of America. 1,288 pages. $40.

What ever happened to John Dos Passos?

When my uncle went to college on the G.I. Bill right after World War II, Dos Passos was, he tells me, a very big deal with the professoriat. When I entered that same college some 15 years later, Dos Passos was nowhere to be found. Today, to most academic literary intents and purposes, he's still missing. Alas that this should be so. Dos Passos was along with Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, e.e. ...

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