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Jul 27, 2020 · When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America.
in the novel a choir of competing narrative voices—part seven-year-old boy, part adult storyteller, part historian, part Jewish-American. Roth’s use of competing discourses in The Plot, along with his blurring of historical/fictional boundaries, forces us (as readers) to consider/reconsider our own histories in a post-9/11 world.
The Plot Against America. In an astonishing feat of empathy and 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 ...
In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh.
Set in Newark, New Jersey, in the early 1940s, The Plot Against America tells the story of what it was like for the Roth family and Jews across the country when the isolationist aviation hero Charles Lindbergh was elected president of the United States. Roth's richly imagined novel begins in 1940, with the landslide election of Lindbergh, who ...
ruptures that will threaten to destroy his small, safe corner of America, and with it his family. THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA is a brave, revelatory, enthralling work that seems to break down the barrier between the past and our endangered present. WINNER | James Fennimore Cooper Prize WINNER | New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
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