![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of the “America First” sentiments and presidential behavior from which the Everyman takes as permission to imitate seems to parallel my country’s current political climate even though it was published in 2004. Though this book displays little action and more emotional, descriptive narrative, I loved every page of it. Roth takes the reader on the emotional rollercoaster of anxiety as his fellow countrymen begin to make his family feel unAmerican as the Lindbergh administration ignites anti-semitic feelings throughout the nation. As a result, the Roth family’s New Jersey Jewish community, as well as those all around the country, begin to feel fearful of attacks at home from their fellow Americans. Lindbergh, who has been elected President of the United States of America, refuses to either aid the Allies in the war or denounce the Nazi regime. The narrative follows seven-year-old Roth at the start of World War II. The blurred lines of his stories make it difficult to tell what has happened to him and what has not. Wait, or is it both? He tends to write from an autobiographical standpoint, making no exception in The Plot Against America. Readers know Philip Roth as the man who fictionalizes reality. ![]()
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