The last two texts are in many ways the opposite of each other, but they share the same epic quality, and the same doorstop level in size. Therefore it is impossible to make a reading of the whole book 'USA' or 'The Fountainhead', but for the latter we can at least watch the film, and to appreciate the former we can select certain sections, since part of it's epic quality is to try and do everything; in turn novel, newsreel, snapshot and biography, in turn both fact and fiction; in short 'the Great American Novel'.
In both cases the intension is to lodge both of these books in your mind for future reference. You never know when you might just need reference to them.
The first section I would like you to read/research/google is the chapter 'The Bitter Drink' (pg 806) a portrait of the thinker Thorstein Veblen, author of 'Theory of the Leisure Class'(1899).
The second his portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright in the chapter 'Architect' (pg1076).
The third his portrait of Henry Ford in the chapter 'Tin Lizzie' (pg769).
These are all sections of the same, relatively short and concise, 'biographical' type.
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