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Inside, Outside

by Herman Wouk

Inside, Outside is a 1985 Herman Wouk novel telling the story of four generations of a Russian Jewish family and its travails in Russia and America. The work is semi-autobiographical, and has been called "the closest thing Wouk gets to a true autobiography". It is told in the first person from the viewpoint of Israel David Goodkind, the third of the four generations in the book. Goodkind, a Democrat, takes a job in the White House as a Special Assistant (for cultural/Jewish affairs) to the President, just before the Yom Kippur War and Watergate. Although the President is never named, it is clear that it is Richard Nixon. The narrative refers explicitly to the Watergate scandal, as an event contemporaneous with Goodkind's employment in the White House.

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