John Dos Passos: one man, one life.

From: National Review | Date: December 31, 1985| Author: Tate, J.O. | Copyright information

OF ALL those individuals who supported and contributed to NATIONAL REVIEW in its early years and who, in so doing, helped raise to a national and even international level an awareness of traditional values and an informed consciousness of the tides of history, none brought more impressive credentials or more experience than did John Dos Passos.

"Dos," as his friends called him and as he frequently signed himself, had in 1947 been elected to Chair 14 of the American Acade...

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