Plot Against America

400 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 2018 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-5291-1081-4
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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 …

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 There are nearly 7.7 billion people in the world and of them just about 14.5 million are Jewish, a number lower than before the Holocaust. Despite making up less than 0.2 percent of the world, Jews have had an enormous impact on the sciences, academia, and the arts. I'm not Jewish and even though I live in a part of the U.S. with a fairly high Jewish population I don't know a large number of Jews. Nonetheless, many of my favorite writers are Jewish (Isaac Asimov, Saul Bellow, Harold Brodkey, E.L. Doctorow, Joseph Heller, Christopher Hitchens, Erica Jong, Jerzy Kosinski, Fran Lebowitz, Norman Mailer, Henry Roth, J.D. Salinger, James Salter, Susan Sontag) and when they write about Jewish concerns I'm as engaged as if they were writing about me or people in my neighborhood, Jewish or not.
 Philip Roth (1933–2018) has always been at the top of my list of …

Review of 'La Conjura Contra America / The Plot Against America' on 'Goodreads'

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The Plot Against America, traduit en français sous le titre Le complot contre l'Amérique, est un livre mémorable, un très grand roman de Philip Roth publié en 2004

Ce roman se présente comme le récit autobiographique d’un jeune garçon juif dans l’Amérique du début des années 1940. Le récit diverge de l’Histoire quand Charles Linbergh, isolationniste et antisémite notoire, remporte la nomination du Parti Républicain et défait à la surprise générale le président sortant Roosevelt lors l’élection présidentielle de 1940.

Charles Lindbergh jouit d'une double aura : c'est un héros encore jeune de l’aviation américaine, et le kidnapping et la mort tragique de son fils, alors âgé de moins de deux ans, dans une affaire qui avait passionné et choqué l’opinion publique en 1932 a fait de lui un père-martyr. Il semble ainsi le candidat républicain idéal pour empêcher Roosevelt, affaibli par la maladie et déjà aux commandes du …

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