The Establishment Author:Howard Fast It is 1948, World War II is over but the world is not at peace. In San Francisco, Barbara Lavette, whose career as author and foreign correspondent was chronicled in Second Generation, is trying to make a life with her husband, Bernie Cohen, the soldier of fortune whome she'd first met in Paris, and their small son, Sam. Then comes a mysteriou... more »s and urgent call, a secret mission for Bernie and a train of events that leads Barbara to a confrontation with a Congress caught up in the McCarthy communist witch hunt, to jail, to further tragedy and final fulfillment.« less
This book is the last of the three part series of books, and just like the others, it is excellent. It takes the Leverette family up through the years of the l950's and the formation of the New Israel. Start reading with the first book, "The Immigrants". I highly recommend the whole series. Genny