Ragtime
In New Rochelle before the war a comfortable family takes in a black newborn and the woman who bore him, and the child's father, a ragtime pianist with a new Model T, begins calling at the house. When a volunteer fire company blocks the road and wrecks the car, he goes looking for redress through every channel open to a man of his colour. Doctorow threads Houdini, Emma Goldman and J. P. Morgan through that line, and took its engine from Kleist.
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- modeled on ↑ Michael Kohlhaas
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