1949
THE GRAND DESIGN
John Dos Passos
THE GRAND DESIGN
Houghton Mifflin · 1949
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5 weeks on the Hardcover Fiction list, peaking at #8
Portrait of the period when the New Deal was at the cocktail party stage in Washington. The novel critiques the gargantuan growth of bureaucracy in Washington during the Great Depression and World War II. The satiric novel conveys the author’s frustration with federal overreach and the hollow rhetoric that sells it to the people.
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Details
- Published
- 1949
- Pages
- 456
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
Bureaucracy
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