When John Dos Passos wrote The Big Money, the third novel of his trilogy USA., he was undergoing a radical reorientation of his already radical politics. He had come to find communism and socialism unsatisfactory solutions to socioeconomic problems in America and was searching for and defining alternatives. His journalism of the time shows the definition he arrived at, personified in his concept of the middle-class liberal. He promoted the solution in The Big Money to engage middle-class liberals with him in reforming America.1
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