In the second volume, an account of the deeds and works of Thorstein Veblen is presented in the biographical section "The Bitter Drink.
At one point in this work, Dick authors the insincere poem "To a Common Prostitute" for Hilda, the wife of a minister with whom he has having an affair. In another section, the sexual libertine Ike Hall and Mac makes a cross-country journey. This work ends with a description of a hitchhiker in a section called "Vag." In the second volume, an account of the deeds and works of Thorstein Veblen is presented in the biographical section "The Bitter Drink." Near the end of this work, labor activist Mary French return from the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. This series of books incorporates many newsreels and "Camera Eye" sections to convey a stream of consciousness style. Consisting of The 42nd Parallel, 1919 and The Big Money, for 10 points, identify this trilogy of novels by John Dos Passos.
At one point in this work, Dick authors the insincere poem "To a Common Prostitute" for Hilda, the wife of a minister with whom he has having an affair.
U.S.A. Trilogy [prompt on any of the three individual novels mentioned in the tossup]