I Married A Communist Av Philip Roth

<p><b>The second novel of Roth¿s eloquent American trilogy, set in the tempestuous McCarthy era - a brilliant successor to <i>American Pastoral</i></b><br><br><i>I Married a Communist</i> charts the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, an American roughneck who begins life as a ditchdigger in 1930s New Jersey, becoming a big-time radio hotshot in the 1940s. In his heyday as a star - and as a zealous, bullying supporter of ''progressive'' political causes - Ira marries Hollywood''s beloved leading lady, Eve Frame. Their glamorous honeymoon is short-lived, however, and it is the publication of Eve''s scandalous bestselling expose that identifies Ira as ''an American taking his orders from Moscow''. <br><br> In this story of cruelty, betrayal, and savage revenge, anti-Communist fever pollutes national politics and infects the relationships of ordinary Americans; friends become deadly enemies, parents and children tragically estranged, lovers blacklisted and felled from vertiginous heights.<br><b