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The book of daniel, by e.l. doctorow

As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents pay a visit to a Communist man and his wife in their New York apartment. After a trial that divides the country, the couple are sent to the electric chair for treason. Decades later, in 1967, their son Daniel struggles to understand the tragedy of their lives.

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  • "As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents pay a visit to a Communist man and his wife in their New York apartment. After a trial that divides the country, the couple are sent to the electric chair for treason. Decades later, in 1967, their son Daniel struggles to understand the tragedy of their lives."
  • "As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents pay a visit to a Communist man and his wife in their New York apartment. After a trial that divides the country, the couple are sent to the electric chair for treason. Decades later, in 1967, their son Daniel struggles to understand the tragedy of their lives."@en
  • "Daniel Isaacson, whose parents were executed for treason, composes a unique document recalling the associations, and interpersonal relationships of his life."
  • "In 1967, Daniel, the son of two convicted spys executed by their own country, ponders his life, his sister's radicalism, his appreciation for his wife and son, and the hypocrisy of the moralistic ideals upon which this country was based."
  • "Tragedy of the lives of a brother and sister whose parents were executed as spies."
  • "De zoon van een joods-Russisch immigrantenechtpaar in de V.S., dat terechtgesteld is wegens atoomspionage komt niet tot een normaal leven omdat het lot van zijn ouders hem obsedeert."
  • "The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia.His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted. 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. It is a life that enrages him.In the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different.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.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 Pen-tagon. 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. It is The Book of Daniel.From the Hardcover edition."@en

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  • "Political fiction"
  • "Political fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Jewish fiction"
  • "Jewish fiction"@en
  • "Legal stories"
  • "Legal stories"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Das Buch Daniel"
  • "Cartea lui Daniel"
  • "Danielin kirja"@fi
  • "Das Buch Daniel; Roman"
  • "The book of daniel, by e.l. doctorow"@en
  • "Il libro di Daniel"
  • "Il libro di Daniel"@it
  • "The book of Daniel; a novel"
  • "El libro de Daniel"@es
  • "El libro de Daniel"
  • "Sefer Daniʼel"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Das Buch Daniel : Roman. Aus d. Amerikanischen"
  • "The book of Daniel : a novel"
  • "The book of Daniel : a novel"@en
  • "‏ספר דניאל /‏"
  • "The book of Daniel : [novel]"
  • "Le livre de Daniel : roman traduit de l'americain"
  • "The book of Daniel : A novel"
  • "The Book of Daniel"
  • "Le Livre de Daniel"
  • "ספר דניאל"
  • "Le livre de Daniel : roman"
  • "The book of Daniel"
  • "The book of Daniel"@en
  • "The book of Daniel a novel"
  • "The book of Daniel a novel"@en
  • "O livro de Daniel"
  • "El Libro de Daniel"@ca
  • "El Libro de Daniel"
  • "Cartea lui Daniel : [roman]"
  • "The Book of Daniel : a Novel"
  • "Sefer Daniyel"
  • "The book of Daniel : Unabridged"
  • "Das Buch Daniel : Roman"
  • "Księga Daniela"@pl
  • "Księga Daniela"
  • "Het boek van Daniel"
  • "Das Buch Daniel Roman"
  • "The Book of Daniel : a novel"

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