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The 42nd Parallel

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by John Dos Passos, comprising The 42nd Parallel (1930), covering the period from 1900 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…
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