{"product_id":"the-book-of-daniel","title":"The Book Of Daniel","description":"Description for THE BOOK OF DANIEL by E L Doctorow: \u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nThe central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nHis 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.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nOut of the shambles of his childhood, he has constructed a new life?Çömarriage to an adoring girl who gives him a son of his own, and a career in scholarship. It is a life that enrages him.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nIn the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nIt is a confession of his most intimate relationships?Çöwith his wife, his foster parents, and his kid sister Susan, whose own radicalism so reproaches him.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nIt 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?ÇÖ innocence; visiting his mother and father in the Death House.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nIt is a book of investigation: transcribing Daniel?ÇÖs interviews with people who knew his parents, or who knew about them; and logging his strange researches and discoveries in the library stacks.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nIt is a book of judgments of everyone involved in the case?Çölawyers, police, informers, friends, and the Isaacson family itself.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nIt 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?Çöits 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Connies Bookshelf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42956667355352,"sku":null,"price":2.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/9099\/4904\/products\/TheBookOfDaniel.jpg?v=1655046368","url":"https:\/\/conniesbookshelf.com\/products\/the-book-of-daniel","provider":"Connies Bookshelf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}