{"product_id":"book-blhv","title":"The American People, Vol. 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe long-awaited new novel by America's master playwright and activist-a radical reimagining of our history and our hopes and fears\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForty years in the making, \u003ci\u003eThe American People\u003c\/i\u003e embodies Larry Kramer's vision of his beloved and accursed homeland. As the founder of ACT UP and the author of \u003ci\u003eFaggots\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Normal Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, Kramer has decisively affected American lives and letters. Here, as only he can, he tells the heartbreaking and heroic story of one nation under a plague, contaminated by greed, hate, and disease yet host to transcendent acts of courage and kindness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this magisterial novel's sweeping first volume, which runs up to the 1950s, we meet prehistoric monkeys who spread a peculiar virus, a Native American shaman whose sexual explorations mutate into occult visions, and early English settlers who live as loving same-sex couples only to fall victim to the forces of bigotry. George Washington and Alexander Hamilton revel in unexpected intimacies, and John Wilkes Booth's motives for assassinating Abraham Lincoln are thoroughly revised. In the twentieth century, the nightmare of history deepens as a religious sect conspires with eugenicists, McCarthyites, and Ivy Leaguers to exterminate homosexuals, and the AIDS virus begins to spread. Against all this, Kramer sets the tender story of a middle-class family outside Washington, DC, trying to get along in the darkest of times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe American People\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of ribald satire, prophetic anger, and dazzling imagination. It is an encyclopedic indictment written with outrageous love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49300865122608,"sku":"BDblhv","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49300865155376,"sku":"ZEblhv","price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD [ZM]","offer_id":49300865253680,"sku":"ZMblhv","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/blhv-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775785327","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-blhv","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}