{"product_id":"number-one-paperback","title":"Number One - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Dos Passos\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTyler Spotswood, an alcoholic campaign manager, helps elect a corrupt Southern politician to the U.S. Senate. When his boss, Chuck Crawford aka \"Number One,\" pins a scandal on Spotswood, Tyler is too drunk to blow the whistle. \u003ci\u003eNumber One\u003c\/i\u003e draws many comparisons to Robert Penn Warren's \u003ci\u003eAll the King's Men\u003c\/i\u003e. Crawford reminds many of Louisiana politician Huey Long, a figure studied in person by Dos Passos. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Roderigo Dos Passos (1896-1970) was a writer, painter, and political activist. He wrote over forty books, including plays, poetry, novels, biographies, histories, and memoirs. He crafted over four hundred drawings, watercolors, and other artworks. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Dos Passos considered himself foremost a writer of contemporary chronicles. He preferred the moniker of \"chronicler\" because he was happiest working at the edge of fiction and nonfiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Both genres benefited from his mastery of observation--his \"camera eye\"--and his sense of historical context. Dos Passos sought to ground fiction in historic detail and working-class, realistic dialogue. He invented a multimedia format of songs, newsreels, biographies, third-person fictional narrative, and first-person semi-autobiographical narrative snapshots to convey the frenzy of America's industrialism and urbanism in the twentieth century. His most memorable fiction--\u003ci\u003eThree Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e (1921), \u003ci\u003eManhattan Transfer\u003c\/i\u003e (1925), and the U.S.A. trilogy (1938)--possesses the authority of history and the allure of myth. Likewise, he sought to vitalize nonfiction history and reportage with the colors, sounds, and smells documented on his journeys across the globe.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 210\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 14, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701496254527,"sku":"9781504011471","price":14.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/74afdb0f5566dc085b677962e16acbfe.webp?v=1765020861","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/number-one-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}