"It is not simply that [Dos Passos] has a keen eye for people, but that he has a keen eye for so many different kinds of people." -- New York Times

"In a trilogy that took on an unsettled nations' discontents, Dos Passos delivered a magnum opus that stands apart from much of American fiction...unlike anything else ever written." -- Wall Street Journal

"[Dos Passos] remains one of the few first-rate figures among our writers of his generation, and the only one of these who has made a systematic effort to study all the aspects of America and to take account of all its elements, to compose them into a picture which makes some general sense. Most of the first-rate men of Dos Passos's age--Hemingway, Wilder, Fitzgerald--cultivate their own little corners and do not confront the situation as a whole. Only Dos Passos has tried to take hold of it." -- Edmund Wilson

"One of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken." -- Time