Based on the trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, convicted of delivering information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union E.L. Doctorow\"s The Book of Daniel includes a new introduction by Jonathan Freedland in Penguin Modern Classics....

Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. In this chronicle, real-life characters intermingle with three families, one black, one Jewish, and one prosperous WASP, to create a literary mosaic......

Doctorow\'s new novel is set towards the end of the American Civil War and follows General Sherman\'s epic march with sixty thousand Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, one of the major manoeuvres to bring the war to its......

Book DescriptionThe central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted....

Book DescriptionOne of America’s premier writers, the bestselling author of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, and World’s Fair turns his astonishing narrative powers to the short story in five dazzling explorations ofwho we are as a people and how we live. Ranging over the American continent from Alaska to Washington, D.C....

Book Description E. L. Doctorow is one of America\'s most accomplished and acclaimed living writers....