Adventures of a Young Man - John dos Passos

By John dos Passos

Release Date: 2015-06-23

Genre: Historical Fiction

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In a novel that closely parallels author John Dos Passos's own ideological struggles during the Spanish Civil War, protagonist Glenn Spotswood, an American, travels to Spain to fight on the Republican side. There, Spotswood joins the Communist Party to help establish a more just society, but his idealism quickly degrades under the stress of party orthodoxy and hypocrisy.

Adventures of a Young Man - John dos Passos

By John dos Passos

Release Date: 2015-06-23

Genre: Historical Fiction

(0 ratings)
In a novel that closely parallels author John Dos Passos's own ideological struggles during the Spanish Civil War, protagonist Glenn Spotswood, an American, travels to Spain to fight on the Republican side. There, Spotswood joins the Communist Party to help establish a more just society, but his idealism quickly degrades under the stress of party orthodoxy and hypocrisy.

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