Our Gang: Starring Tricky and His Friends - Philip Roth (First Edition)

FIRST UK EDITION, Jonathan Cape, 1971, hardcover, 1971, 200 pages,  discrete Chinese character stamp & name to endpaper, dust jacket protector, otherwise condition: as new.

'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 master politician with an honest sneer, he finds himself battling the Boy Scouts, declaring war on 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 clichés 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'.