{"product_id":"the-american-people-volume-1-search-for-my-heart-a-novel-9781250083302","title":"The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRenowned playwright and author Larry Kramer's stunning work of imagination and courage reimagines American history from John Wilkes Booth to Joseph McCarthy in this long-awaited, devastating satire\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForty years in the making, \u003ci\u003eThe American People\u003c\/i\u003e sets forth Larry Kramer's vision of his homeland. As the founder of ACT UP and the author of \u003ci\u003eFaggots \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Normal Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, Kramer has decisively affected American lives and letters. Here he reimagines our history. This is the story of one nation under a plague, contaminated by greed, hate, and disease and host to transcendent acts of courage and kindness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this first volume, which runs up to the 1950s, we meet prehistoric monkeys who spread a peculiar virus, a Native American shaman whose sexual explorations mutate into occult visions, and early English settlers who establish loving same-sex couples only to fall prey to the forces of bigotry. George Washington and Alexander Hamilton revel in unexpected intimacies, and John Wilkes Booth's motives for assassinating Abraham Lincoln are thoroughly revised. In the twentieth century, the nightmare of history deepens as a religious sect conspires with eugenicists, McCarthyites, and Ivy Leaguers to exterminate homosexuals, and the AIDS virus begins to spread. Against all this, Kramer sets the intimate heartfelt story of a middle-class family outside Washington, D.C., trying to cope with the darkest of times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe American People\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of ribald satire, prophetic outrage, and dazzling imagination. It is an encyclopedic indictment, written with outrageous love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/05\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250083302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.60d","brand":"Larry Kramer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45038162706613,"sku":"9781250083302","price":43.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7475e6a3-19ef-4a30-b4d2-ee2f42ed5405.jpg?v=1737474886","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-american-people-volume-1-search-for-my-heart-a-novel-9781250083302","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}