The plot against America
the plot against America ( The stud against America ) is a Romance American of Philip Roth (2004). It has gains the Prix Sidewise this same year.
the plot against America is a Uchronie being held in the Forties with the the United States. The Narrator, which bears the name of Phillip Roth, described his memories of child resulting from an Jewish family of the New Jersey. In 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was not re-elected and it is the aviator, sympathizer of the mode Nazi and member of the committee America First, Charles Lindbergh which became president of the United States at the end of an anti-semitism campaign tinted and centered mainly on the refusal to see America taking share with the conflict which devastates Europe. Once arrived at the capacity, Lindbergh hastens to conclude with Hitler a non-aggression pact.
This novel mixes made historical proven and imaginary events: the speeches violently anti-semites of Lindbergh at the time of the countryside against the intervention of America in the war are authentic. But its candidature for the presidency of the east United States of course about the fiction as well as the events which result from this. Roth describes a subtle rise of the Antisémitisme within the american company and increasing concern within the Jewish community. Told from the point of view of a child, through the events which touch its family and her vicinity, the account puts in scene the various attitudes of the characters vis-a-vis the potential rise of a American Fascisme.
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