Adventures of a Young Man
novel by Dos Passos
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Adventures of a Young Man is a novel by John Dos Passos, published in 1939. It is the first novel in his District of Columbia trilogy, which followed his more famous U.S.A. trilogy. The novel chronicles Dos Passos's growing disillusionment with the labor movement, radical politics, and New Deal liberalism. The District of Columbia trilogy, including Adventures of a Young Man, marked a shift towards greater political conservatism in Dos Passos's work, which became more pronounced in his later writings.1
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