title: The Plot Against America
author/editor: Philip Roth
reviewed by: Don
THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA
Pulitzer Prize winner, Philip Roth is best remembered for his Goodbye Colombus and Portnoy's Complaint. New York Times has named his latest novel, The Plot Against America, one of the top ten fiction books of 2004.
The story is told by a nine-year old Jewish boy living in a Newark ghetto and related Charles Lindberg's defeat of FDR in the elections of 1940. Lindberg ran on a platform of anti-war, pro-Nazi planks that were implemented in numerous white-supremacy programs forcing the break-up of Jewish communities and the relocation of many Jews.
Roth tells a gripping though imaginative story of what might have been, complete with the angst of a Jewish household and the inner life of a nine-year old boy.
Don adds, "Frances wrote me that she was reading Blink. I am interested in her thoughts as I recently listened to the audio book. Much of it makes law enforcement and commercial applications. I was disappointed at lack of personal applications. I hope Frances will let me know what she thinks."