Inside, Outside is a 1985 Herman Wouk novel telling the story of four generations of a Russian Jewish family and its travails in Russia and America.

The narrative refers explicitly to the Watergate scandal, as an event contemporaneous with Goodkind's employment in the White House.

After college, Goodkind works for Harry Goldhandler, a gag writer for radio comedies (very loosely based on David Freedman), and has a romance with showgirl Bobbie Webb.

Goodkind as a child and young man is embarrassed by his first name Israel, mockingly shortened by several other characters to Izzy.

In the last scene of the novel when Goodkind returns to the U.S. after the Yom Kippur War, he tells an El Al flight attendant to call him Israel.