Daniel Aaron's chapter on Dos Passos, footnote 20

20. The psychoanalytic explanation for Dos Passos's radicalism is offered by Martin Kallich in *The Antioch Review*, X (March l9S0), pp. 99- 106. Kallich suggests that the hatred of his father "may have contributed to his distrust of all forms of authority that can possibly invade the individual's right" (p. 102). It should be noted, however, that his father, a successful and rich corporation lawyer, displayed his own kind of Intransigence. The alleged y "Tory" Dos Passos, now living in Westmoreland County, Virginia, is still no "defender of vested interests." See Granville Hicks, "The Politics of John Dos Passos," *The Antioch Review*, X (March 1950), p. 97. Schneider's review is in *NM*, XX (Aug. 11, 1936), pp. 4041. For Dos Passos's 1939 credo, see *PR*, VI (Summer 1939), n. 27.

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