TY  - GEN
AU  - Roth, Philip
TI  - I married a communist
SN  - 9781784875558
U1  - 813.54 ROT 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London: 
PB  - Vintage Classics
KW  - Nineteen forties -- Fiction.
KW  - United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction
KW  - Ringold, Ira, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
KW  - Spouses -- Fiction
KW  - Radio actors and actresses -- Fiction.
KW  - United States -- Social conditions -- 1953-1961 -- Fiction.
KW  - Communism -- United States -- Fiction.
KW  - Blacklisting of entertainers -- United States -- Fiction.
N2  -  I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall 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 of the 1950s. In 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 protrayal 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.
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