Name: Roll Over, Hitler!
Author: Daniel Bruce Brown
ISBN: 9781592994656

Published:

Nov-2010
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Main Genre:

General Fiction
Pages:

406
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Roll Over, Hitler! -- Winner of the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal for Popular Fiction.

In a world gone mad, is madness the only weapon for achieving sanity? Is a president's prostate health a matter of national security? Can pornographic filmmaking be an acceptable currency in political discourse? Should the Grand Canyon be made into a landfill? Should condoms be worn when having sex with farm animals? These thorny questions torment and tickle the narrative of Roll Over, Hitler! But they are hardly alone.
            "Why is this penis different from all other penises?" asks prepubescent Myron S. Goldberg at a family Passover Seder, angry with his perennially distracted parents for forgetting to have him circumcised at birth in keeping with Jewish tradition. Little did he know that his much maligned appendage, the root cause of his childhood humiliation and conflicted Jewish identity, would one day teach him the true meaning of Passover.
            But first he must save the world -- a quest that gains serious traction when Goldberg is elected the first Jewish President of the United States. Proclaimed "the Jewish Kennedy," his kingdom "the Kosher Camelot," he still is not universally accepted. Blackmail, dirty tricks and charges of nepotism proliferate. Anti-Semitism resurges. Death threats abound. Old flames are fanned. Pork is eschewed. Camels are bombed. Baseball is debased. Furniture is rearranged. All of it threatening to derail Goldberg's ambitious world disarmament plan -- a scheme, honed to perfection through conversations with his dead father, that could end all life on Earth in a nanosecond.
            Told in the self-deprecating voice of Myron S. Goldberg, Roll Over, Hitler! contends that the flipside of pain is not pleasure, but humor, and in between lies enlightenment. Above all, the novel embraces the truth that even unbearable pain can sometimes be cathartically funny and, in the end, a blessing.