It isn’t as handsome or comprehensive as Clemson University Press’s new annotated Manhattan Transfer, but an annotated edition of John Dos Passos’s Three Soldiers does exist

“War is a time of Caesars,” wrote John Dos Passos in The Grand Design (1949). As I study biographical material for my Lisbon speech, I’m noticing material I can use for an essay I’ve long wanted to write about John Dos Passos and democracy.