Our Gang: Philip Roth

Philip Roth`s entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016

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

A ferocious political satire in the great tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, Our Gang is Philip Roth`s brilliantly acerbic 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. 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.

Tricky is the unprincipled self-seeker who hides his heartlessness behind the anaesthetising cliches of high office, whose public language is a merciless parody of that `candid` Presidential prose which is merely double-talk, or as Orwell put it, `pure wind`.