John Dos Passos's literary response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, The Grand Design critiques the gargantuan growth of bureaucracy in Washington during the Great Depression and World War II. The satiric novel conveys the author's frustration with federal overreach and the hollow rhetoric that sells it to the people. "War is a time of Caesars," writes Dos Passos as he laments the death of idealistic, intelligent enterprises at the desks of elitist administrators. After witnessing the Spanish Civil War claim so ...
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John Dos Passos's literary response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, The Grand Design critiques the gargantuan growth of bureaucracy in Washington during the Great Depression and World War II. The satiric novel conveys the author's frustration with federal overreach and the hollow rhetoric that sells it to the people. "War is a time of Caesars," writes Dos Passos as he laments the death of idealistic, intelligent enterprises at the desks of elitist administrators. After witnessing the Spanish Civil War claim so many well-intentioned men, he advises caution for America's New Dealers: "Some things we have learned, but not enough; there is more to learn. Today we must learn to found again in freedom our republic."
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Good. 1949 Houghtin Mifflin Press hardcover, with jacket, tight binding, unmarked text, jacket has significant edge wer and tear. Fast Shipping-Safe and Secure Bubble Mailer!
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First Edition. University Book Store stamp to the dust jacket front inside flap, otherwise no other markings. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket.
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Very Good in very good + jacket. 8vo. [8], 440 pp. Bound in red and white cloth, title stamped in black on cover and spine, top edge stained black, in illustrated dust jacket. Very Good, discoloring to white cloth of binding, minor age-toning to pages, in Very Good dust jacket with overall age-toning, light rubbing and wear to extremities. Solid copy.