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In Washington, D.C., life inside the Goldstein home is as tumultuous as the shifting landscape of the times. It is 1979, and Benjamin is heading off to college and sixteen-year-old Vanessa is in the throes of a rocky adolescence. Sharon, a caterer for the Washington elite, ventures into a cultlike organization. And Dennis, whose government job often takes him to Moscow, tries to live up to his father’s legacy as a union organizer and community leader.
The rise of communism and the execution of the Rosenbergs is history. The Cold War is waning, the soldiers who fought in Vietnam have all come home, and Carter is president. The age of protest has come and gone and yet each of the Goldsteins is forced to confront the changes the new decade will bring and explore what it really means to be a radical.
Something Red
is at once a poignant story of husbands and wives, parents and children, activists and spies, and a masterfully built novel that unfurls with suspense and humor.Caught in the throes of such challenges as a new college year, adolescence and extreme religious beliefs, the Goldstein family of 1979 Washington, D.C. is further upended by Dennis Goldstein's government job in the shifting political landscape of the Cold War.
Caught up in such challenges as a new college year, adolescence, and extreme religious beliefs, the Goldstein family of 1979 Washington, D.C., is upended by Dennis Goldstein's government job in the shifting political landscape of the Cold War.
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- New York : Scribner, 2010.
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