American People: Volume 2, The

The American People: Volume 2 is narrated by (among others) the writer Fred Lemish and his two friends-Dr. Daniel Jerusalem, who works for America's preeminent health-care institution, and his twin brother, David Jerusalem, a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp who was abused by many powerful men.

Together they track a terrible plague that intensifies as the government ignores it and depict the bold and imaginative activists who set out to shock the nation's conscience. In Kramer's telling, the United States is dedicated to the proposition that very few men are created equal, and those who love other men may be destined for death. Here is a historical novel like no other-satiric and impassioned and driven by an uncompromising moral and literary vision.