Volume 22, Number 13 · August 7, 1975
From Ragtime to Riches
By Roger Sale
Ragtime
by E. L. Doctorow
Boxed Limited Edition, 270 pp., $20.00
The leading characters in E. L. Doctorow's very splashy Ragtime are a family, called by name Father, Mother, Mother's Younger Brother, and 'the boy,' plus Harry Houdini, Emma Goldman, Evelyn Nesbit, Harry K. Thaw, Coalhouse Walker Jr., Sarah, J. P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Admiral Peary, Baron Ashkenazy and his daughter, Booker T. Washington, the Fire Chief of New Rochelle, the District Attorney of New York. Near the beginning we learn this about America at the turn of the century:
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