![]() Jewishness is always the scrim through which Roth examines American contemporary culture. The story is framed in Roth's own family history: the family flat in Weequahic, the neighbors, his parents, Bess and Herman, his brother, Sandy and seven-year-old Philip. It is these latter attributes of Lindbergh that inform the novel. According to some reliable sources, he was also a rabid isolationist, Nazi sympathizer, and a crypto-fascist. He was a true American hero: brave, modest, handsome, a patriot. Louis, then had the country's sympathy upon the kidnapping and murder of his young son. ![]() Lindbergh, the "Lone Eagle," captured the country's imagination by his solo Atlantic crossing in 1927 in the monoplane, Spirit of St. Lindbergh defeats FDR for the Presidency in 1940. The Plot Against America explores a wholly imagined thesis and sees it through to the end: Charles A. ![]() It is a credible, fully-realized picture of what could happen anywhere, at any time, if the right people and circumstances come together. ![]() ![]() Such is not the case with Philip Roth's tour de force, The Plot Against America. They are sometimes thinly veiled tales of the gospel according to the author, taking on the claustrophobic air of a personal fantasia that can't be shared. ![]()
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