“I'm a big fan of Philip Roth. But I ignored this title for some time because I thought the premise was iffy. Then I saw it on CD at the library one day and decided, "what the heck". Well, I'm glad I did. In the talented hands of Roth the premise seems realistic. American hero Charles Lindbergh runs for President in 1940 on am anti-war platform and beats Roosevelt. Lindbergh was anti-semitic, according to the book. (There is controversy about such a claim.) Lindbergh cuts deals with Hitler and the Japanese and America stays out of the war, but takes steps towards fascism. This book is to a degree autobiographical, as many of Roth's books are. This book centers around a boy growing up in a Jewish family in New Jersey. Read this book because of Roth's fine writing, the good story and whatever lessons you might draw from it relative to our own time.”
Scott B wrote this review Saturday, September 12 2009.
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