DOS Passos: Artist as AmericanIn most of his half century of writing, John Dos Passos consistently tried to capture and define the American character. The complete range of his work builds to Dos Passos' concept of contemporary chronicle, his own name for his fiction. In this first study of all Dos Passos' writing, Linda W. Wagner examines his fiction, poetry, drama, travel essays, and history a body of work that evokes a vivid image of America meant to be neither judgmental nor