"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. He lives in Westchester County with his wife and three children. Formerly editor-in-chief of a prominent New York publishing house, he was most recently writer-in-residence at the University of California at Irvine. His earlier novels are Welcome to Hard Times and Big as Life. DOCTOROW was born in 1931 in New York City and was educated at Kenyon College and Columbia University. It is about the nature of guilt and innocence, and about the relations of people to nations.įrom the Hardcover edition. It is a book about some of the beautiful and terrible feelings of childhood. It is a book about the nature of Left politics in this country?its sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness.
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It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. 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 Pen-tagon. 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 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. 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. At the heart of the story is the stultifyingly Victorian model family of a respectable manufacturer of flags, fireworks and patriotic odds and. 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. Doctorows The Book of Daniel (1971) mythified the Rosenbergs and their children, but Ragtime galvanizes the headlines and heroes of an entire formative era in a political work of even greater magnitude. Doctorows Daniel, as a son of the executed. dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different. The biblical Daniel not only interpreted the dreams of the monarch Nebuchadnezzar, but reimagined and reconstituted those dreams Nebuchadnezzar had forgotten, so that no detail of the enigmatic story they comprised would escape analysis. In the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. Out of the shambles of his childhood, he has constructed a new life?marriage to an adoring girl who gives him a son of his own, and a career in scholarship.
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He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia.