The Grand Design: A Novel

The Grand Design: A Novel
ISBN-10
1504015460
ISBN-13
9781504015462
Series
The Grand Design
Category
Fiction
Pages
376
Language
English
Published
2015-06-23
Publisher
Open Road Media
Author
John Dos Passos

Description

John Dos Passos’s literary response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, The Grand Design critiques the gargantuan growth of bureaucracy in Washington during the Great Depression and World War II. The satiric novel conveys the author’s frustration with federal overreach and the hollow rhetoric that sells it to the people. “War is a time of Caesars,” writes Dos Passos as he laments the death of idealistic, intelligent enterprises at the desks of elitist administrators. After witnessing the Spanish Civil War claim so many well-intentioned men, he advises caution for America’s New Dealers: “Some things we have learned, but not enough; there is more to learn. Today we must learn to found again in freedom our republic.”

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