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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     School Library Journal Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Roth, Philip.     Subjects     Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 -- Fiction.     Presidents -- United States -- Fiction.     Presidents -- Election -- Fiction.     Jews -- United States -- Fiction.     Jewish families -- Fiction.     Antisemitism -- Fiction.     Newark (N.Y.) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Roth, Philip.       by title:      The plot against Ame...       by call number:      FICTION ROT     Search the Web     Roth, Philip.     Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 -- Fiction.     Presidents -- United States -- Fiction.     Presidents -- Election -- Fiction.     Jews -- United States -- Fiction.     Jewish families -- Fiction.     Antisemitism -- Fiction.     Newark (N.Y.) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The plot against America / Philip Roth. by Roth, Philip. Houghton Mifflin, c2004. Call #: FICTION ROT Subjects Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 -- Fiction.   Presidents -- United States -- Fiction.   Presidents -- Election -- Fiction.   Jews -- United States -- Fiction.   Jewish families -- Fiction.   Antisemitism -- Fiction.   Newark (N.Y.) -- Fiction. ISBN:  0618509283 Description:  391 p. ; 24 cm. Summary:  As Philip Roth has it, aviation hero Charles Lindbergh is nominated for president in 1940 on a peace-with-Hitler platform and wins handily over FDR--the majority of the electorate fearing that Roosevelt intends to propel the country into the war currently raging in Europe. Of course, a large segment of American Jewry is frightened at the advent of Lindbergh into the White House; his friendship with the fuhrer could easily include acceptance or even adoption of the German dictator's anti-Semitic policies. Roth brings this provocative national situation down to a personal level by drawing the reader into the lives of the young narrator--called Philip Roth--and his Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey. How the Lindbergh presidency divides the family, since each member must "determine the response sensible for a Jewish family to take," is the specific focus. In particular, Roth isolates young Philip's reaction when his immediate world is plunged into turmoil he both understands and doesn't quite understand. There are occasional breaches in the "what-if" conceit, from which escape faint whiffs of gimmick, but the overall effect of the novel is staggering. Roth has constructed a brilliantly telling and disturbing historical prism by which to refract the American psyche as it pertains to war--the central question always being, Do we protect humanity beyond our borders and see our soldiers come home in body bags? Genre:  Alternative histories (Fiction) Political fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION ROT Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Tantallon Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION ROT Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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