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The Plot Against America: Summary and book reviews of The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, plus links to an excerpt from The Plot Against America and a biography of Philip Roth.
The Plot Against America
by
Philip Roth
Hardcover: Oct 2004,
400 pages.
Paperback: Sep 2005,
400 pages.
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. Not only had Lindbergh, in a
nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing America
toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but upon taking office as the
thirty-third president of the United States, he negotiated a cordial "understanding"
with Adolf Hitler, whose conquest of Europe and virulent anti-Semitic policies
he appeared to accept without difficulty.
What then followed in America is the
historical setting for this startling new book by Pulitzer Prize-winner Philip
Roth, who recounts what it was like for his Newark family — and for a million
such families all over the country — during the menacing years of the
Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews had every
reason to expect the worst.
Book Reviews
Publishers Weekly
In the balance of
personal, domestic and national events, the novel is one of Roth's most deft
creations....Roth's writing has
never been so direct and accessible while retaining its stylistic precision and
acute insights into human foibles and follies.
Booklist - Brad Hooper
Starred Review. This magnificent novel is
both appropriate to today's headlines and timeless for its undermining of the
blind sentiment that it can't happen here.
Library Journal - Barbara Hoffert
This may be alternative history, but it is chillingly and
convincingly realistic in its portrayal. The reader watches, horrified yet
totally absorbed, as America spirals down the path toward fascism. Perhaps the
last-minute rescue and explanation for Lindbergh's stance seems a bit
far-fetched, but otherwise this is a remarkable achievement. Highly recommended.
Kirkus Reviews
The story gathers breakneck velocity and intensity, ending perhaps too
abruptly (and, perhaps, pointing the way to a sequel). But hilarious and
terrifying by turns, it's a sumptuous interweaving of narrative,
characterization, speculation, and argument that joins The Ghost Writer (1979)
and Operation Shylock (1993) at the summit of Roth's achievement. An almost
unbelievably rich book, and another likely major prizewinner.
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Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page-turning murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus.
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