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	Amazon.co.uk: The Plot Against America: Books: Philip Roth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		What followed in America is the historical setting for this startling new novel by Pulitzer-prize winner Philip Roth, who recounts what it was like for his Newark family during the menacing years of the Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews had every reason to expect the worst.
		Praise for "The Plot Against America": ""The Plot Against America" is an epic, built - painstakingly, passionately, near perfectly - of the small structures of the particular.
		Against this background we have the life of the child Philip, in which he has many other things to think about than the political situation which so involves his parents and the older members of his family.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Plot-Against-America-Philip-Roth/dp/0099478560 (2218 words)

	The Plot Against America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Plot Against America: A Novel (ISBN 0-618-50928-3) is a novel by Philip Roth published in 2004.
		It is an alternate history where Franklin Delano Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh.
		The title appears to be taken from that of a communist pamphlet published in support of the campaign against Burton K. Wheeler's re-election to the U.S. Senate in 1946.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Plot_Against_America (500 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Plot Against America : A Novel: Books: Philip Roth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Plot opens as a sort of memoir, centering on the travails of the Roth family-yes, this book is another experiment in what uber-critic Michiko Kakutani disparagingly termed “Roth’s old mirror games.” Seven-year-old Philip is the novel’s cherubic narrator.
		He's appealing to the book reading segment of America to which he belongs, and to people who would rather be horrified by things that MIGHT have happened, while ignoring the unpleasant things that DID happen to many minorities.
		The plot device (in this case Lindbergh) puts the characters into the crucible, but the device fades at the end when it comes time for the characters to rise or fall and bring meaning to what the author has done.
	www.amazon.ca /Plot-Against-America-Novel/dp/0618509283 (3422 words)

	The Plot Against America by Philip Roth: Reviews
		The Plot Against America is far and away the most outward-looking, expansive, least narcissistic book Roth has written.
		The Plot Against America's real strength, though, lies in its portrait of a family on the verge of disintegration and a nation in the grip of hysteria.
		The Plot Against America is that rare mix of literary and popular fiction.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/rothphilip/plotagainstamerica (1429 words)

	Review: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		The Plot Against America by Philip Roth 391pp, Cape, £16.99
		The thesis of The Plot Against America is paranoid, too - a fascistic US government suspending civil liberties and persecuting minorities deemed a threat to security.
		And The Plot Against America creates its reality magisterially, in long, fluid sentences that carry you beyond scepticism and with a quotidian attentiveness to sights and sounds, tastes and smells, surnames and nicknames and brandnames - an accumulation of des petits faits vrais - that dissolves any residual disbelief.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,1317737,00.html (1026 words)

	It Didn’t Happen Here by Ross Douthat - Policy Review, No. 129
		The Plot Against America’s premise is well-known by now, but it bears repeating in all its disarming simplicity: In 1940, a deadlocked Republican convention is interrupted by the arrival — by plane, and in full pilot gear — of Charles Lindbergh, transatlantic flying ace, celebrity kidnap victim, famous isolationist, and homegrown anti-Semite.
		In what is supposedly the same America that gave Roosevelt four consecutive terms, the only voice raised against Lindbergh belongs to the prototypical loudmouth Jew, Walter Winchell, who runs for president and immediately becomes “the man to beat” for the Democratic nomination.
		Of course The Plot Against America is not a roman a clef, exactly: There is no key that would enable the reader to recognize Lindy as Dubya, or the American Jews of the 1940s as the American Muslims of the early twenty-first century, or any similar absurdity.
	www.policyreview.org /feb05/douthat.html (1607 words)

	Review of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America and Cynthia Ozick's Heir to the Glimmering World -- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Plot Against America is told through the eyes of a seven year old child (a playful fictionialization of the author, whom Roth gives his own name), rather than from the point of view of the simmering adolescent or adult males that usually inhabit his fictional world.
		Roth's nightmare of anti-Semitism come home to roost in America is set in a landscape of pre-, a landscape of Jewish identity prior to the Holocaust and the foundation of Israel, and the subsequent need to negotiate Jewish American identity against the complicated backdrop of a Jewish genocide and a Jewish nation-state.
		Throughout The Plot Against America, as Roth depicts the steady growth of anti-Semitism in America under the Lindbergh regime through the eyes of young Philip, he refuses to take what might have been the easy route in a novel about anti-Semitism: pitting "Jews" against "Christians" or cosmopolitan philo-Semites against Jew-hating hicks.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/157/story_15785_1.html (712 words)

	Borders - Feature - The Plot Against America
		But history will not let go, and as America is whipped into a deadly frenzy by demagogues, the Roths and Jews everywhere begin to expect the worst.
		In The Plot Against America, Philip Roth writes with a historical sweep and lyrical intimacy that have rarely been so skillfully combined.
		Much is at stake in The Plot Against America—the fate of America's Jews, the larger fate of Europe and indeed of Western civilization, but also how America will define itself.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=plotagainstamerica_rg (949 words)

	Todd Buell THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA Wolf Moon Press A Maine Journal of Art and Opinion
		Roth portrays an America that elects Charles Lindbergh as its president in the election of 1940.
		In The Plot Against America, these citizens believe the government when it claims that it is only trying to allow citizens to see different parts of the country.
		In Roth’s America, the nation is mostly openly anti-Semitic or tacitly complies with anti-Semitism.
	www.wolfmoonpress.com /Books/plotagainstamerica.htm (637 words)

	A plot against America - The Boston Globe
		America has had its share of home grown terrorism.
		The story of how US-based German officials and their agents plotted and carried out the destruction of Black Tom is a ready-made suspense thriller.
		Millman's lengthy portrait of McCloy, who rose from the modest circumstances of his youth to become a successful Wall Street lawyer, is a compelling narrative, a sort of book within the book.
	boston.com /ae/books/articles/2006/08/06/a_plot_against_america/?... (874 words)

	"The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth - Salon
		He envisions the kind of America where, like it or not, he is a Jew first.
		You can see all the strings and gears here, as in "The Human Stain," in which Coleman Silk is given a wife solely so that she can be hounded unto death by a university's administration and thus provide sufficient justification for Silk's foaming hatred of that administration.
		With "The Plot Against America," we're asked to believe something far more dramatic: that our country could, under the right circumstances and under the influence of powerful demagogues, degenerate into hate-stoked rioting on the level of Nazi Germany's notorious Kristallnacht.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2004/09/29/roth/index.html (651 words)

	NPR : Roth Rewrites History with a 'Plot Against America' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As Roth tells NPR's Robert Siegel, the invented history of The Plot Against America is also "a kind of false memoir." He places his family and himself as a young boy in Newark in the middle of this fascist alter-America.
		As a consequence, the young aviator whose daring had thrilled America and the world and whose achievement bespoke a future of unimaginable aeronautical progress came to occupy a special niche in the gallery of family anecdotes that generate a child's first cohesive mythology.
		Roosevelt raised everyone's spirits by his robust response on learning that his opponent was to be Lindbergh rather than a senator of the stature of Taft or a prosecutor as aggressive as Dewey or a bigtime lawyer as smooth and handsome as Willkie.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=3932632 (7857 words)

	Amazon.com: The Plot Against America: Books: Philip Roth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America" suggests that perhaps U.S. society was, in 1940, one election surprise away from fascism.
		Roth's Plot is as much, if not more, the story of the reaction of one family to this alternate history as the story of a nation at war with itself.
		You won't find a protagonist like Mickey Sabbath in "The Plot Against America." Instead, the book's true heroes in the midst of this upheaval are Philip's parents, who struggle to save their extended family from their own despair and from outside danger.
	www.amazon.com /Plot-Against-America-Philip-Roth/dp/1400079497 (2631 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA by Philip Roth
		But nowhere in PLOT does Roth mention today's America or current politics, which is one of the strengths of the book.
		Lindy repeats a PR slogan --- "An independent destiny for America" --- 15 times in his State of the Union message, and one cannot help but think of the "don't let the smoking gun be a mushroom cloud" slogan being repeated over and over again by government officials to justify invading and occupying another nation.
		Lindbergh was involved in America First and did accept a medal from Hitler's Germany and speak admiringly of the Nazis.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/1400079497.asp (1393 words)

	Waypath - Topic Stream: Books > The Plot Against America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For instance, the classic recent example being Philip Roth's The Plot Against America.
		But I think America is a special case, as opposed to Britain, in terms of having short term memory...
		The war we fight now is not against a foreign enemy.
	www.waypath.com /topic/books_plotamerica.html (267 words)

	Philip Roth: The Plot Against America
		When Charles Lindbergh decides to run against Franklin Roosevelt in 1940, the tradition of presidents serving only two terms as well as the idea that "it can't happen here" as espoused by Newark's Rabbi Bengelsdorf, help propel Lindbergh, who was known to be sympathetic to the Nazis, into the White House on a peace platform.
		The Plot Against America is well-researched and provides an intriguing, if disheartening, view of America through the eyes of a seven-year old as his family is torn apart and rebuilt.
		Despite the weak ending, The Plot Against America is a well-written novel which, despite the author's assertions, has a very direct message for contemporary America.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/roth.html (528 words)

	OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
		Similar accusations are hurled in "The Plot Against America." The narrator, a nine-year-old character named Philip Roth, is upset to discover that he now hates Lindbergh, formerly one of his heroes, for attacking FDR, whom his devoutly Democratic father, Herman Roth, has taught him to love.
		At this point, alas, "The Plot Against America" moves from provocative conjecture to all-out fantasy and sacrifices whatever psychological subtlety it had.
		America seems to be teetering on civil war or a pogrom or both when Lindbergh flies to Louisville, Ky., and gives a speech reassuring everyone that the country will remain at peace.
	www.opinionjournal.com /la/?id=110005722 (935 words)

	The plot against America exposed
		The step-by-step erosion of the values that served so well as the underpinning of America's greatness — or "that shining city on the hill," as Ronald Reagan used to say — did not "just happen." They were planned.
		Ultimately, the "school" moved to America where it was accepted by Columbia University in New York.
		This was accomplished by John Dewey, the educator credited (or blamed) by many with leading to the corruption of America's education system.
	www.renewamerica.us /columns/vernon/061127 (1217 words)

	The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
		The events are recounted as seen through the eyes of 'Philip Roth', just seven years old when the events described in the book begin to unfold, living with his family in a Jewish neighbourhood in Newark.
		The novel imagines Charles Lindbergh running against and defeating Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1940 American presidential elections on a platform promising to keep the United States out of the World War ("Vote for Lindbergh or vote for war", as he succinctly puts the choice).
		His pro-German and arguably anti-Semitic leanings are cause for great concern in the Roth household (and among Jews generally), and the book chronicles the slow transformation of the nation around them in those years.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/rothp/plotaa.htm (2928 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
		ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
		For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh’s election is the first in a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small, safe corner of America—and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother.
		Much is at stake in The Plot Against America --- the fate of America’s Jews, the larger fate of Europe and indeed of Western civilization, but also how America will define itself.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/plot_against_america1.asp (686 words)

	Amazon.de: The Plot Against America: English Books: Philip Roth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Plot Against America explores a wholly imagined thesis and sees it through to the end: Charles A. Lindbergh defeats FDR for the Presidency in 1940.
		The Plot Against America is a fictional device that provides American readers with a mental exercise to help understand what it was like to be a Jew during the rise of the Nazis in Europe.
		He comes back to a Lindbergh America where his sacrifice is not appreciated and he is widely regarded as a traitor.
	www.amazon.de /Plot-Against-America-Philip-Roth/dp/0618509283 (2443 words)

	"The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth - Salon
		Like everyone else in the novel, he's in thrall to a notion of America; the novel's most ferocious battles ultimately boil down to a collision of contradictory Americas.
		For the rabbi and his "wealthy, urbane, self-assured" friends, America is their own success story, in which they, the tiny first generation of Jews to attend Ivy League colleges, "mingled with the non-Jews, whom they subsequently associated with in communal, political and business endeavors and who sometimes appeared to accept them as equals."
		To the Roths, America is the set of constitutional and governmental protections that allows them to live unmolested in Jewish neighborhoods.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2004/09/29/roth/index1.html (585 words)

	Book Club: The Plot Against America. - By Nicholas Lemann and Judith Shulevitz - Slate Magazine
		It imagines an America in which an isolationist anti-Semite—the celebrity aviator Charles Lindbergh—is elected president in 1940 and leads the country into a Nazi alliance and fascism, rather than FDR being elected for a third term.
		No, in The Plot Against America we have the spectacle of Newark's Jews being given the ennobling proportions of figures most likely to be seen on postage stamps.
		Now, though The Plot Against America generates these same emotions, Roth has of course found a story in which the stakes are much higher—real fascism, not just a political agenda that liberals like me don't like—and maybe that vitiates my analogy.
	www.slate.com /id/2107947/entry/2108055 (1616 words)

	Reno and Its Discontents»Blog Archive » Plot Against America
		It makes me think of Plot Against America, Phillip Roth’s latest novel that recently won some votes for the best piece of American fiction of the last 25 years, so its safe to say its a good book.
		I actually have to read the last few pages tonight, but the basic plot is that Charles A. Lindbergh, running on an isolationist platform, beats FDR in the 1940 election, allies the United States with the Nazis, and begins a slow but methodical march down the road to facism that is entirely convincing.
		In fact, in Plot Against America, Lindbergh often compaigns in his flight gear, bringing to mind Bush’s notorious proclamation about the end of combat operations in Iraq swathed in his borrowed flight gear.
	www.renodiscontent.com /2006/05/15/plot-against-america (621 words)

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