The Plot Against America: A Novel

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 5 oct. 2004 - 400 pages
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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 worst.
 

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Table des matières

1 Vote for Lindbergh or Vote for War
1
2 Loudmouth Jew
44
3 Following Christians
83
4 The Stump
122
5 Never Before
153
6 Their Country
204
7 The Winchell Riots
237
8 Bad Days
287
9 Perpetual Fear
328
Postscript
363
About the Author
392
Droits d'auteur

Expressions et termes fréquents

Adolf Hitler already Alvin American Anne Morrow Lindbergh anti-Semitic asked Aunt Evelyn began brother called cellar Chancellor Avenue city’s couldn’t country’s Cucuzza Democratic didn’t dinner door Earl everything family’s fascist father Ford friends front German going Guardia hand happened he’d he’s Hitler Homestead 42 hundred Jersey Jewish Jews Joey Kentucky kids kitchen knew look Mawhinney mayor morning mother nation Nazi never Newark night parents Penn Station Plot Against America police President Lindbergh presidential Rabbi Bengelsdorf radio Republican Ribbentrop Roosevelt Roth Sandy Sandy’s Seldon Senate Spirit of St stamp Steinheim stop street stump Summit Avenue talk Taylor tell There’s thing Tirschwell told took trying turned Uncle Monty waiting walking Walter Winchell Washington wasn’t week what’s Wheeler White House who’d Winchell’s Wishnow York

À propos de l'auteur (2004)

In 1997 Philip Roth (1933-2018) won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, among others. He twice won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ prize for "the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004" and the W.H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year, making Roth the first writer in the forty-six-year history of the prize to win it twice.

In 2005 Roth became the third living American writer to have his works published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. In 2012 he won Spain’s highest honor, the Prince of Asturias Award, and in 2013 he received France’s highest honor, Commander of the Legion of Honor.

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TitreThe Plot Against America: A Novel
AuteurPhilip Roth
ÉditeurHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004
ISBN0547345313, 9780547345314
Longueur400 pages
  
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