![]() ![]() ![]() His father wrestles with the problems created by the new government, his mother endures, his brother Sandy flirts with the Lindbergh policies, and his aunt's husband, a Newark rabbi named Bengelsdorf, becomes a figurehead for the new relocation program. Parallel to the rise of Lindbergh's proto-fascist American presidency, with state visits by Nazi luminaries and a plan to relocate and ‘Americanize’ East Coast Jewish families, is young Philip's education into the realities of his own family life. and the dangers of a cult-of-personality presidency in which a politically unseasoned. An excursion into alternative history, it is in conception as daring as any of the best of such creations … The Plot Against America stands almost in a category by itself, a book driven by twin engines of historical curiosity: the anti-Semitic strain in American culture as exemplified by the isolationist views of Charles Lindbergh, and Jewish paranoia … Roth's novel turns disaster into an engaging story. Philip Roth’s 2004 novel The Plot Against America was a cautionary tale about anti-Semitism in the U.S. ![]() It is an alternative history in which Franklin D. Latest novel, intriguingly titled The Plot Against America, couldn't be more amazing. Read 4986 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. The Plot Against America is a novel by Philip Roth published in 2004. ![]()
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