Eisenhower
President Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower is a minor character.
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam is a fictional, folklore character, the protector of the American style of life. Robert Coover uses a satiric tone to describe Uncle Sam in order to laugh at the Cold War fears and hysteria.
The Phantom
The Phantom is the opponent of Uncle Sam, the embodiment of Communism, the son of Darkness. Of course, all these unpleasant characteristics are ascribed to the Phantom by Uncle Sam. In general, the Phantom is the satire on the Cold War hysteria.
Richard Nixon
Vice President Richard Nixon is one of the main characters of the story and the narrator. This fictional version could be described as a round character. He is ambitious, selfish, even cruel, but also a human, who has his fears, longings and hopes.
Pat Nixon
Pat Nixon is Vice President Richard Nixon’s wife.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg play an important role in the story, for they are – according to almost every character in the novel – are representatives of the Darkness, criminals, who almost manage to sell the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviets. They are sentenced to an execution.
David Greenglass
David Greenglass is Ethel Rosenberg’s brother.
William Douglas
William Douglas is a Supreme Court Justice. He is often accused of being a communist for an attempt to pursue a deeper investigation of the Rosenberg case.
Roy Marcus Cohn
Roy Marcus Cohn is a right-hand man of Joseph McCarthy, who has helped Irving Saypol to send the Rosenbergs to the Death House.
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy is a senator and a happy warrior against Communism.
Betty Crocker
Betty Crocker is a daughter of General Mill.
Max Brothers
Max Brothers are comedians.
Irving Kaufman
Irving Kaufman is a judge.
Irving Saypol
Irving Saypol is a judge. He is often referred to as “the boy judge” courtesy his young age.
Bill Knowland
Bill Knowland is the Majority Leader.
Ev Dirksen
Ev Dirksen is one of Richard Nixon’s Senate classmates.
Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss is an American politician, whose career is destroyed courtesy of accusations of him being a Soviet spy.
Poet Laureate
Poet Laureate is an incarnation of the Time.
