A marked departure from his previous book, the popular Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang is a political satire written in the form of a closet drama.

We are then involved in a totally academic discussion.In chapter two, entitled "Tricky holds a press conference", Dixon takes questions from reporters with names to suit their respective personalities.

Daring, suggests President Dixon may be giving voting rights to the unborn for purely political reasons), Miss Charming (the typical female reporter often stereotyped in media as 'charming' indeed), Mr.

From this starting point, Roth satirizes Nixon and his cabinet—particularly Henry Kissinger ("Highbrow coach") and Spiro Agnew ("Vice President-what's-his-name")—as Tricky tries to deny that he supports sexual intercourse, provoking a group of Boy Scouts to riot in Washington, D.C., in which three are shot.

After an operation to remove his upper lip sweat gland, he is eventually assassinated by being drowned in a giant baggie filled with water, his corpse in the fetal position.