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Marching Men
''Marching Men'' is a 1917 novel by American author Sherwood Anderson. Published by John Lane, the novel is Anderson's second book; the first being the 1916 novel ''Windy McPherson's Son''. ''Marching Men'' is the story of Norman "Beaut" McGregor, a young man discontented with the powerlessness and lack of personal ambition among the miners of his hometown. After moving to Chicago he discovers his purpose is to empower workers by having them march in unison. Major themes of the novel include the organization of laborers, eradication of disorder, and the role of the exceptional man in society. The latter theme led post-World War II critics to compare Anderson's militaristic approach to homosocial order and the fascists of the War's Axis powers.
''Marching Men'' was written as a hobby project while Sherwood Anderson was still working in advertising. A combination of a small first run, mediocre reviews, and poor sales, convinced Anderson's publisher not to give ''Marching Men'' a second run. The novel has since been reprinted several times by other publishers including a 1927 Russian translation, yet is generally forgotten by the reading public except as a step in the development of its author.〔Dunne (2001), 42〕
==Development history==
Like ''Windy McPherson's Son'', Sherwood Anderson wrote his second novel while he worked as an advertising copywriter in Elyria, Ohio between 1906 and 1913, several years before he published his first literary writing and a decade before he became an established writer.〔White (1972), xvii〕 At least part of ''Marching Men'' was written in an attic room of Anderson's Elyria home, which he set up to escape familial demands and focus on writing. Though the author later claimed that he had written his first novels in secret, Anderson's secretary remembers typing the manuscript on company time "around 1911 or 1912".〔White (1972), xii–xiv〕
Inspiration for ''Marching Men'' came in part from the author's time as a laborer in Chicago between 1900 and 1906 (where he, like his protagonist, worked in a warehouse, went to night school, was robbed, and fell in love several times) and his service in the Spanish–American War which took place towards the end of the war and just after the armistice in 1898–99.〔White (1972), xv–xvii〕〔Whalan (2007), 64–65〕 Of the latter, Anderson wrote in his ''Memoirs'' about the time he had been marching and got a rock in his shoe. After separating from his fellow soldiers to remove it, he observed them and recalled "I had become a giant. ... I was, in myself, something huge, terrible and at the same time noble. I remember that I sat, for a long time, while the army passed, opening and closing my eyes".〔Anderson (1969), 185–186〕 Combined with his later reading of works by Thomas Carlyle, Mark Twain, and possibly Jack London,〔Burbank (1966), 40〕 Anderson had inspiration for ''Marching Men'' that was both experiential and literary.
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