Our Gang

Conflicting stories continue to circulate concerning the death of the President. A second White House announcement has now called attention to the President's schedule for the day, pointing out that no mention is made there of dying. Also released was the President's schedule for tomorrow, wherein there also appears to be no plan on the part of the President or his advisers for him to die. "I think it would be best," said the White House Bilge Secretary, "in the light of these schedules, to wait for a statement, one way or another, from the President himself.”

Our Gang
Story details
Protagonist	Trick E. Dixon
Setting	Washington, D.C., the 1970s
Real world details
Author	Philip Roth
Publisher	Random House
Page length	200 pages
Release date	1971

Our Gang is a novel written by Philip Roth. Released in 1971, it is a satire of President Richard Nixon and tells of the misadventures of President Trick E. Dixon.

Characters

• Trick E. Dixon
• Satan

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Publisher's summary

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral comes a brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon that was Richard M. Nixon. • “Disturbing, logical...and very funny.... In short, a masterpiece" — The New York Times Book Review

In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth shows us a man 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 in self-defense. 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.

See also

Title	Author	Release date	Significance
The Public Burning	Robert Coover	1977	Another novel based on the Nixon Administration
Watergate	Thomas Mallon	2012	Another novel based on the Nixon Administration
Jailbird	Kurt Vonnegut	1979	Another novel based on the Nixon Administration
Inside, Outside	Herman Wouk	1985	Another novel based on the Nixon Administration by one of Roth's contemporaries
The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great	Henry Fielding	1743	A similar political satire

Sources

• Wikipedia
• Goodreads

Works of Philip Roth

Early novels (1959-1977) Goodbye, Columbus, Letting Go, When She Was Good, Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang, The Breast, The Great American Novel, My Life as a Man, The Professor of Desire Middle novels (1979-1993) The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, The Anatomy Lesson, The Prague Orgy, The Counterlife, Deception, Operation Shylock Later novels (1995-2010) Sabbath's Theater, American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, The Human Stain, The Dying Animal, The Plot Against America, Everyman, Exit Ghost, Indignation, The Humbling, Nemesis Miscellany Goodbye, Columbus, Reading Myself and Others, A Philip Roth Reader, Zuckerman Bound, The Facts, Patrimony, Shop Talk Major and recurring characters Nathan Zuckerman, Philip Roth, Neil Klugman, David Kepesh, Gabe Wallach, Lucy Nelson, Alexander Portnoy, Trick E. Dixon, Word Smith, Peter Tarnopol, Mickey Sabbath, Swede Levov, Nathan Zuckerman, Marcus Messner, Simon Axler, Bucky Cantor, Arnie Mesnikoff