Our Gang : Starring Trick and His Friends

Our Gang : Starring Trick and His Friends
ISBN: 9780099389118
Publication Date: 3 November 1994

'Disturbing, logical and very funny... In short, a masterpiece' - New York Times Book Review

A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gang is Philip Roth's brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon.

In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth portrays an American president who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who doesn't have a problem with killing unarmed women and children in self-defence. A master politician with an honest sneer, he finds himself battling the Boy Scouts, declaring war on pro-pornography Denmark, all the time trusting in the basic indifference of the voting public.