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Sep 27, 2005 · The Plot Against America. 1. In what ways does The Plot Against America differ from conventional historical fiction? What effects does Roth achieve by blending personal history, historical fact, and an alternative history? 2. The novel begins "Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear" [p. 1]. With this sentence Roth establishes that ...
Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003– 2004.” Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov
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 ...
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The events of The Plot Against America span from June of 1940 to October of 1942. Within that time period, though Roth makes significant alterations to the course of American history, he also employs a cast of characters comprised of many real-life historical figures. When Charles Lindbergh runs for the presidency of the United States on a ...
Sep 26, 2005 · Philip Roth imagines an alternate version of American history in which Charles Lindbergh is elected President. The heroic aviator and rabid isolationist negotiates a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, while the government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh's election heralds a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small ...
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