"Nothing quite like it has ever been done in America. . . . It is so vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing, that the book is lifted into a category all its own," wrote H.L. Mencken, speaking of Anderson"s Winesburg, Ohio. Anderson, he said, is "America"s Most Distinctive Novelist." Marching Men, Anderson"s 1917 second novel, is a tale taht focuses on the plight of the working man in an industrial society. Like all of Anderson"s tales, it"s an important social commentary, and not to be overlooked.