{"product_id":"i-married-a-communist","title":"I Married a Communist","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral \u003c\/i\u003edelivers the astonishing story of the rise and fall of an American man whose life is destroyed in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Gripping.... A masterly, often unnerving, blend of tenderness, harshness, insight and wit.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eI Married a Communist\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003ci\u003eCommonweal\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947291312359,"sku":"9780375707216","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_7feff3c0-f5e5-4c4a-ab4d-526715becd08.jpg?v=1775486122","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/i-married-a-communist","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}