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Bob's Reviews > U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money

U.S.A. by John Dos Passos
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it was amazing

Yow! Too much to say about this - random observations - the depictions of post-WWI US and European strategy around control of oil-producing parts of the globe seems startlingly up-to-date, as does the wrangling of various business tycoons with the recently birthed FDA.
By contrast, the tribulations of anyone who catches a venereal disease in the era before antibiotics, the passing reference to an "icebox" that actually required blocks of ice to keep things cold and so on are interesting period detail. The actual prose style is so 20th century that the narrative often feels much further forward in time than any number of books with which it is contemporaneous.
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