The Big Money

A sweeping portrait of ambition, capitalism, and the restless energy of America in the modern age.

The concluding volume of John Dos Passos’s acclaimed U.S.A. trilogy, The Big Money offers a panoramic view of American society during the years between the First World War and the Great Depression. Through the intersecting lives of businessmen, artists, laborers, and political figures, Dos Passos examines a nation transformed by industrial growth, financial power, and the pursuit of success.

Using his innovative blend of narrative fiction, historical portraits, newsreel-style sections, and stream-of-consciousness passages, he captures both the excitement and the contradictions of a rapidly changing country. At once a social chronicle and a powerful critique of wealth and ambition, The Big Money remains one of the most ambitious works of twentieth-century American literature.

• First published in 1936
• The final novel in John Dos Passos’s landmark U.S.A. trilogy
• A groundbreaking exploration of capitalism, modernity, ambition, and the American experience

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A monumental achievement of modernist fiction that captures the hopes, struggles, and contradictions of twentieth-century America through one of its most inventive literary voices.

About the Author

John Dos Passos (1896–1970) was an American novelist, journalist, and artist best known for his groundbreaking U.S.A. trilogy, which includes The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money. A pioneer of modernist literature, Dos Passos developed innovative techniques that combined fiction with historical documents, biography, and social commentary. His works explored the forces of politics, economics, war, and culture that shaped modern America, establishing him as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.