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The myth of the American Dream and culture. It interweaves the lives of fictional families with figures like Houdini, J. P. Morgan, Emma Goldman, and Henry Ford during early-20th-century America. Stylish, playful, and politically sharp, the novel became one of the landmark historical novels of modern American literature for its inventive structure and critique of class, race, wealth, and industrial power. Doctorow became celebrated for blending real historical figures with fictional narratives, creating ambitious novels that blurred the line between myth, memory, and American history.