Anyone Read Philip Roth's New Book "The Plot Against America"?

NakaNaka

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I'm interested in reading it and it's getting some pretty good reviews, but I'm wondering what some ATOT people thought of it, if they read it. Very interesting plot but I've never read any of Roth's books.
 

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Originally posted by: NakaNaka
I'm interested in reading it and it's getting some pretty good reviews, but I'm wondering what some ATOT people thought of it, if they read it. Very interesting plot but I've never read any of Roth's books.

I was suppose to meet him couple weeks back at the Newark Library, but he had to cancel due to an emergency.
He's a Newark Native.
I personally never have read any books by him, but I hear they're quite good.
 

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Book description: 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.