Title | The Big Money |
Year of Publication | 1936 |
Publication Type | Novel |
Series Title | USA trilogy, 3/3 |
Number of Pages or Episodes | 561 p. |
Language | English |
Authors | Passos, John Dos |
Publisher | Harcourt, Brace, and Company |
City | New York |
Keywords | journalists; labor organizers; librarians; Polish Americans; social workers; steel industry; trade unions |
Abstract | Follows multiple characters to paint the American landscape of the early 20th century. Mary French, a major character, is a journalist who gets involved in labor organizing during Pittsburgh's post-World War I decade. |
Notes | Carnegie Mellon University is referred to as Carnegie Technical Institute, as it was then known. |
Author Biography | John Dos Passos (1896-1970), born in Chicago and a graduate of Harvard, was a American novelist. He died in Baltimore. |
Time | 1920s |