Philip Roth's 'America' is beautifully frightening
Philip Roth is not famous for reticence and modesty -- his personal habits seem to have earned him as many enemies as his vitriolic prose -- but his latest novel glows with a moral righteousness, a clarity of purpose and a sense of urgency that sets it apart from earlier work like 1972's "Portnoy's Complaint."
Roth's extraordinary new novel, "The Plot Against America," is the story of his childhood as a Jewish boy recast in an America where anti-Semite and Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh is the 33rd president. In a memoir of what might have been, he recounts the increasingly...
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