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| Original Title: | The Plot Against America |
| ISBN: | 1400079497 (ISBN13: 9781400079490) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Charles Lindbergh |
| Setting: | Newark, New Jersey,1940(United States) New Jersey,1940(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2005), WH Smith Literary Award (2005), James Fenimore Cooper Prize (2005), Tähtivaeltaja Award Nominee (2006), Sidewise Award for Long Form (2004) |
Philip Roth
Paperback | Pages: 391 pages Rating: 3.78 | 40863 Users | 3672 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Plot Against America |
| Author | : | Philip Roth |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Vintage International Edition (US/CAN) |
| Pages | : | Pages: 391 pages |
| Published | : | September 27th 2005 by Vintage International (first published October 5th 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Science Fiction. Alternate History. Literature |
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In an astonishing feat of narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh's election is the first in a series of ruptures that threatens to destroy his small, safe corner of America - and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother. (back cover)Rating About Books The Plot Against America
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Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.I finally picked up The Plot Against America because I wanted to read it before watching the new HBO series. I had never read anything by Philip Roth, though Id of course heard things about his books and writing style. The comparisons between this novel and the current political environment are so obvious as to be barely worth mentioning, though I must say, not only could you just substitute the word Trump for Lindbergh for whole sections ofI used to argue (in the 1960s) with Grandma Flo, who fiercely insisted that what has repeatedly happened in this world will certainly happen again; in this regard, America is not exceptional. According to Grandma, America -- despite its checks-and-balances system, despite its Bill of Rights -- would become a nation in which people will consume lies like cookies and embrace the "stuff of our nightmares." To a twelve-year-old who had never lived under a sky darkened by the ashes of Jews, Grandma
Agree on all points.
(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)So after a month of election obsession here in Chicago, I find my schedule of book reviews in complete chaos: nearly 20 titles read now, all of them awaiting essays, and with me still continuing to read new books on a daily basis. I thought I'd start this week, then, with a whole series of recently
Breathtaking and highly realistic, The Plot Against America is Philip Roth's vision of an alternative path history could have taken had Charles Lindbergh have not kept his anti-Semitism as a private matter, but (like Mr Trump) brought it into the political arena. In it, Roth features himself as the 6-8 year old narrator seeing the events from a Jewish kid's eyes in Newark. The scenario is Interesting, but what Roth does best is describe the terror and uncertainty of the days during this fictive
Israel didnt exist yet, six million European Jews hadnt yet ceased to exist, and the local relevance of distant Palestine (under British mandate since the 1918 dissolution by the victorious Allies of the last far-flung provinces of the defunct Ottoman Empire) was a mystery to meI pledged allegiance to the flag of our homeland every morning at school. I sang of its marvels with my classmates at assembly programs. I eagerly observed its national holidays, and without giving second thought to my
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