As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents knock on the Bronx apartment door of a Communist man and his wife. After a highly controversial trial, the couple got to the electric chair for treason despite worldwide protests. Decades later their son Daniel, grown to young manhood, tries to make sense of their lives and deaths--and their legacy to him. Like millions of Americans, he is attempting to reconcile an America based on the highest human ideals with the tragedy of his parents. This is the framework for E. L. Doctorow's dazzling masterpiece, as he fictionalizes an actual social and political drama to create an intensely moving, searching, and illuminating tale of two decades, two generations, and a troubled legacy of passion and purpose, martyrdom and meaning.
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