<![CDATA[The Book of Daniel]]>

false <![CDATA[The Book of Daniel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174516442m/411761.jpg 411761 22 The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His 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. Out of the shambles of his childhood, he has constructed a new life—marriage to an adoring girl who gives him a son of his own, and a career in scholarship. It is a life that enrages him. In the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different. It is a confession of his most intimate relationships—with his wife, his foster parents, and his kid sister Susan, whose own radicalism so reproaches him. It 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’ innocence; visiting his mother and father in the Death House. It is a book of investigation: transcribing Daniel’s interviews with people who knew his parents, or who knew about them; and logging his strange researches and discoveries in the library stacks. It is a book of judgments of everyone involved in the case—lawyers, police, informers, friends, and the Isaacson family itself. It 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—its 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. It is The Book of Daniel. 623973 1971 The Book of Daniel total:789|5:242|4:301|3:186|2:52|1:8| 789 3084 1194 91 4 2 false false Tue Dec 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 13:50:51 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 14:09:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 12 16:49:59 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 17:12:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Apr 27 07:19:59 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 27 07:34:59 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 12:30:25 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 12:39:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jun 06 14:02:37 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 06 19:14:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 20:53:39 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 19:25:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 05:02:35 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 05:45:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 04 19:50:19 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 08:42:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 13:07:13 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 13:12:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Mar 03 14:33:13 -0800 2007 Sat Mar 03 14:50:54 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 15:19:32 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 15:19:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 20:11:23 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 18:18:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 21 12:14:03 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 12:14:03 -0700 2008
A stray, but emblematic sentence, from this fascinating chronicle of America as seen through the tributaries of its most prestigious and threatening institutions.

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