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...point of view he holds. Like fragmentary warnings scattered through the volumes, they constantly remind the reader of the author's bias, warn him that Dos Passes' picture of reality has been colored by his personal experiences. After the chapter in The Big Money describing Charley Anderson's return to the U. S., The Camera Eye relates memories of Dos Passes' own homesick return after the War: spine stiffens with the remembered chill of the offshore Atlantic and the jag of framehouses in the west above the invisible land and spiderweb rollercoasters and the chewinggum towers...
...Money as ingeniously simple. Basis of the book is the life stories of a few men and women whose careers converge or parallel each other. Some, like the promising but spineless Harvard intellectual, Dick Savage, have figured prominently in the previous volumes. Red-faced, hard-drinking Charley Anderson barely appeared in The 42nd Parallel; Margo Dowling, dissolute and disillusioned cinema queen, makes her debut in The Big Money. Dos Passos' method is to follow one of his characters through some meaningful experience or period in his life, then shift to another. Between chapters he inserts the short biography...
...Charley Anderson, for example, is a well-meaning, good-hearted aviator who won the Croix de guerre in the War. He has genuine mechanical ability, works as a mechanic for a time, gets along well with plain men when he sees them as individuals. But pursuit of the Big Money corrupts his native talents as well as his good nature, eventually kills him. Dos Passos frames the story of Anderson with thumbnail sketches of Henry Ford, Frederick Winslow Taylor, inventor of scientific management; and Thorstein Veblen. Like Ford, Charley Anderson had native mechanical skill, loved to tinker with machines. Like...
...Material. The Big Money begins with the return of Charley Anderson from France. After a brief glimpse of Manhattan, he gets a cramped job as mechanic in his brother's garage in St. Paul. But Charley wants to get in on aviation's ground floor, incidentally pick up some of the Big Money he sniffs in the post-War air. Almost as soon as he gets it, women and liquor finish...
...cows, and both searched in vain until the Al G. Barnes Circus announced that it would be glad to give San Francisco a bull which had be come a nuisance because of his uncertain temper. He was a 6-ton, 9-ft. high, 25-year-old beast called "Charley Ed," valued at $5,000 minus a tusk which he had lost in a fall from a baggage car. After he ap peared with Wallace Beery in the cinema O'Shaughnessy's Boy he was re-named "Wally." Well-behaved. Wally proved a star attraction at Fleishhacker...