Title: The book of Daniel
Subtitle: a novel
Description: The Book of Daniel is a semi-historical novel loosely based on the lives, trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Doctorow tells the story of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson (corollaries to the Rosenbergs) through the persons of their older son, Daniel, and his sister, Susan, who are college students deeply involved in 1960s politics.  The presentation constantly shifts through backflashes as Daniel faces his [and his sister's] inability to honestly tell his life story.  While there are some crude descriptions/language in places, the novel as a whole is historically informative and instructive  and socially thought provoking.
Subjects: Fiction, Jews, Executions and executioners, Jewish families, Trials (Espionage), American communism, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Jews, fiction, Fiction, jewish, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, political, Domestic fiction, Families
Places: United States
Time periods: 1950s and late 1960s