Views of Washington

[Dave Monroe]

Views of Washington
John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
>From John Dos Passos: Travel Books & Other Writings 1916–1941

As banks failed, unemployment worsened, and desperation deepened
during the early years of the Great Depression, marches and protests
became commonplace. John Dos Passos covered several of them for The
New Republic, and his 1934 collection In All Countries gathers
together some of the accounts as “Views of Washington.” In these
impressionistic sketches, he describes the Hunger March outside the
Capitol in December 1931, political machinations in the halls of power
during the winter and spring, and the “Bonus Army” phenomenon the
following summer.

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