| Description |
10 unnumbered pages, 305 pages ; 23cm |
| Summary |
It is a book of judgments of everyone involved in the case: lawyers, police, informers, friends, and the Isaacson family itself. It is a book rich in characters, from elderly grand-mothers of immigrant culture, to covert radicals of the McCarthy era, to hippie marchers on the Pentagon. It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. It is a book about the nature of Left politics in this country; its sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness. It is a book about some of the beautiful and terrible feelings of childhood. It is about the nature of guilt and innocence, and about the relations of people to nations |
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It is a confession of his most intimate relationships: with his wife, his foster parents, and his kid sister Susan, whose own radicalism so reproaches him. It is a book of memories: riding a bus with his parents to the ill-fated Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill; watching the FBI take his father away; appearing with Susan at rallies protesting their parents' innocence; visiting his mother and father in the Death House. It is a book of investigation: transcribing Daniel's interviews with people who knew his parents, or who knew about them; and logging his strange researches and discoveries in the library stacks |
| Notes |
Fiction in English, 1900-. Texts (BNB/PRECIS) |
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Originally published, New York: Random House, 1971 |
| Subject |
Executions and executioners -- Fiction.
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Jewish families -- Fiction.
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Jews -- United States -- Fiction.
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Novel -- English -- United States -- 20th century -- Texts
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Trials (Espionage) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| LC no. |
bnb33313279 |
| ISBN |
0333132793 |
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