Please join us at Marshall Park (2101 Allen Blvd., Madison WI) to celebrate America's 250th anniversary by discussing John Dos Passos' 1930 novel "The 42nd Parallel," the first book in his "USA" trilogy. The 42nd parallel is a line of latitude that runs east-west across the United States, passing through Chicago. The author wrote in a foreword to the trilogy that "USA is the world's greatest rivervalley fringed with mountains and hills, USA is a set of bigmouthed officials with too many bank...