{"product_id":"i-married-a-communist-philip-roth-9798212383004","title":"I Married a Communist","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral delivers the astonishing story of the rise and fall of an American man whose life is destroyed in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI Married a Communist is the story of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witchhunt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his heyday as a star--and as a zealous, bullying supporter of \"progressive\" political causes--Ira marries Hollywood's beloved silent-film star, Eve Frame. Their glamorous honeymoon in her Manhattan townhouse is short-lived, however, and it is the publication of Eve's scandalous bestselling exposé that identifies him as \"an American taking his orders from Moscow.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this story of cruelty, betrayal, and revenge spilling over into the public arena from their origins in Ira's turbulent personal life, Philip Roth--who Commonweal calls the \"master chronicler of the American twentieth century\"--has written a brilliant fictional portrayal of that treacherous postwar epoch when the anti-Communist fever not only infected national politics but traumatized the intimate, innermost lives of friends and families, husbands and wives, parents and children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Roth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798212383004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blackstone Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e MP3 CD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.69h x 5.28w x 0.63d","brand":"Philip Roth","offers":[{"title":"MP3 CD","offer_id":44860230893823,"sku":"9798212383004","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_65fe532c-2d19-4d5e-9c1e-be2db5e2646b.jpg?v=1709135669","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/i-married-a-communist-philip-roth-9798212383004","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}