John R. Dos Passos

NOVELIST, DESERVES to be remembered in his own right.I shall in this study discuss his career as a social critic, lawyer and author, and try to give some sense of its unusual tone.I shall be concerned, not with evaluating the father's career, however, but with suggesting the influence of Dos Passos Sr.'s thought on the novelist's early political development.That some of the novelist's first experiences with political doctrines consisted of simply listening to his father talk 1 is as important a fact as it is an unextraordinary one.I shall devote my attention to the early, and particularly the radical, phase of the novelist's development because it culminated, during the late 1920s and the 1930s, in the writing of the trilogy US.Ahis major literary achievement.Aspects of the senior Dos Passos' influence on the son's later, conservative thought will probably suggest themselves. 2 The novelist being very much a living contemporary, I will not attempt to explore his private emotional life.John R. Dos Passos Sr. was the son of a poor immigrant from Madeira and of an

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