I Married a Communist
Roth, Philip
"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, both as a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witch-hunt of the 1950s. In 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 expose that identifies him as "an American taking his orders from Moscow". In this story of cruelty, betrayal, and revenge spilling over into the public arena from...
ISBN: 978-0-09-928783-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
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