Our Gang: (Starring Tricky And His Friends)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
A biting work of political satire, Our Gang: Starring Tricky and His Friends skewers the Nixon administration with razor-sharp wit and unflinching irreverence, presenting a fictional President Tricky Dixon whose moral bankruptcy and political doublespeak are pushed to their most absurd and darkly comic extremes. Philip Roth constructs a savage parody that chronicles the unraveling of a corrupt leader through a series of escalating scandals, speeches, and schemes that mirror the real-world hypocrisies of American political life in the early 1970s. The tone is relentlessly caustic and comedic, wielding exaggeration as a scalpel to dissect the language of power and the theater of democratic governance. Roth illustrates how political rhetoric can be twisted to justify virtually anything, making the novel as unsettling as it is hilarious. Published in 1971, just before the full eruption of the Watergate scandal, Our Gang stands as a remarkably prescient and enduring indictment of American political corruption.
Author: Philip Roth
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
A biting work of political satire, Our Gang: Starring Tricky and His Friends skewers the Nixon administration with razor-sharp wit and unflinching irreverence, presenting a fictional President Tricky Dixon whose moral bankruptcy and political doublespeak are pushed to their most absurd and darkly comic extremes. Philip Roth constructs a savage parody that chronicles the unraveling of a corrupt leader through a series of escalating scandals, speeches, and schemes that mirror the real-world hypocrisies of American political life in the early 1970s. The tone is relentlessly caustic and comedic, wielding exaggeration as a scalpel to dissect the language of power and the theater of democratic governance. Roth illustrates how political rhetoric can be twisted to justify virtually anything, making the novel as unsettling as it is hilarious. Published in 1971, just before the full eruption of the Watergate scandal, Our Gang stands as a remarkably prescient and enduring indictment of American political corruption.