{"product_id":"our-gang-a-novel-isbn-9780063508491","title":"Our Gang: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Disturbing, logical and very funny... In short, a masterpiece.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA ferocious political satire in the great tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, \u003ci\u003eOur Gang\u003c\/i\u003e is Philip Roth's brilliantly acerbic response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth portrays an American president who outdoes the severest cynic; a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who doesn't have a problem with killing unarmed women and children. A master politician with an honest sneer, he finds himself battling the Boy Scouts, declaring war on pro-pornography Denmark, all the time trusting in the basic indifference of the voting public.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTricky is the unprincipled self-seeker who hides his heartlessness behind the anaesthetising clichés of high office, whose public language is a merciless parody of that 'candid' Presidential prose which is merely double-talk, or as Orwell put it, 'pure wind'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52125443981541,"sku":"NP9780063508491","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/our-gang-a-novel-isbn-9780063508491","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}