One section of this novel ends by asserting "we have only words against."
Near the end of this novel, an advertising executive is robbed by two gay black prostitutes after meeting E. R. Bingham, a con man selling patent medicines. One section of this novel ends by asserting "we have only words against." Another section proclaims "America our nation has been beaten by strangers who have turned our language inside out who have taken the clean words our fathers spoke and made them slimy and foul," and laments "we stand defeated America." This novel compares Thorstein Veblen to Socrates in its section "The Bitter Drink," and ends with Ben Compton leaving Mary French after being expelled from the Communist Party. In this novel, Margo Dowling becomes a star in silent movies before her career is ruined by the advent of talkies, and Charley Anderson becomes a wealthy aviation executive after returning from World War I. Set during the nineteen-twenties, this novel includes biographies of Frederick Taylor and Henry Ford titled "The American Plan" and "Tin Lizzie," as well as sections forty-three to fifty-one of "The ? Camera Eye." For 10 points, name this final novel in the U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos, published after The 42nd Parallel and 1919.
Near the end of this novel, an advertising executive is robbed by two gay black prostitutes after meeting E. R. Bingham, a con man selling patent medicines.
The {Big Money} [prompt on {U.S.A.} until mentioned]