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I don't generally write reviews for the classics, since I figure that many other people have already done a better job than I could do, and this isn't any exception. However, there has been some discussion of these books' connections with some Rush songs, and I do feel qualified to discuss that shortly.

Most Rush fans will make the connection with the song "The Big Money", but there two other songs whose titles also bear similarities with these books: "The Camera Eye" and "Middletown Dreams". The former is the name of many subsections in all three books, and Middletown is the name of the hometown of Mac, the first character we follow in the trilogy.

However, none of the songs' lyrics really have anything to do with anything in the books, and since all three can easily be common phrases without any relation to the books at all, I would hesitate to call them direct references at all. Neil Peart has said that he's a fan of Dos Passos' writing (this is unsurprising since Peart is a genius and surely recognizes it when he reads it), he has also said that there is no relationship intended.

So, that's pretty boring, but that's how it goes sometimes.