{"product_id":"book-gokk","title":"I Married a Communist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/em\u003e delivers the astonishing story of the rise and fall of an American man whose life is destroyed in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Married a Communist\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 \u003cem\u003eCommonweal \u003c\/em\u003ecalls the \"master chronicler of the American twentieth century\"-has written a brilliant fictional portrayal 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49287534379312,"sku":"BDgokk","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49287534412080,"sku":"ZEgokk","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49287534444848,"sku":"ZMgokk","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/gokk-Square-cover.jpg?v=1782429980","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-gokk","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}