Final Session

The final session covers this blockbuster of a read, Dos Passos's USA. You should not fear the length, for the format is such that the text is split up in to many semi autonomous elements - biographies, newspaper clippings, and poetic description as much as the novelistic drama- so you can almost dip in. Wherever you do dip, I can assure you of likely tragedy unfolding on the page, beautifully but unconventionally written.

This volume ends, yet also in a way grounds our previous investigations, for here you have it; a new nation, a new century, a new technology, and a new population, and their adventure, all in one book. You will find the recurrent image of capitalism as inherently tragic unfold in now familiar terms, simply because you have encountered so much subsequent material, and hopefully you will see, in context, perhaps suddenly, both the incongruity of Ayn Rand, and the essential efforts of Eagleton, along with much more.