Dos Passos grew up to a turbulent childhood and he was born on January 14, 1896. He traveled a lot during his childhood living in Mexico, Belgium, Britain, Washington D.C., and Virginia. After graduating from Harvard in 1916, John went to France to become an ambulance driver in World War 1. After, he traveled through Spain, Mexico, and the Middle East as a newspaper correspondent and a writer. During his stay in Paris he became friends with other literary writers such as Ernest Hemmingway, E. E. Cummings, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Edmund Wilson. He wrote Manhattan Transfer followed his first novel in 1920 called One Man’s Intuition and that in 1

In this excerpt from U.S.A., John writes about the life of Henry Ford and the beginning of the automobiles. At first, he describes the sounds and how the automobile works. He makes it seem as if he was feeling the car and driving it just like the man who was writing the letter. He later goes on to describe how Henry Ford discovered how to make his first automobile, and how he started the Ford Motor Company when he was forty years old. It became the most successful automobile manufacturer of its time. Henry wanted the workers of the company to be good Americans, so he put out an add for clean-cut American men who did not drink or smoke cigarette and who were overall good citizens. This caused conflict with Henry Ford and angry men who wanted those jobs. There were riots, and Henrys property was destroyed. Henrys dream of the American plan failed, but he was still known as "The Automobileer" and was loved by many people. John put this entry into his book because he thought that Henry Ford was a Great American and he thought that his accomplishments were great.

U.S.A. was a novel by John Dos Passos that was widely accepted to many Americans who read it. However,

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