The Plot Against America

Sunday, March 15, 2015, 2:00-3:30pm The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth Facilitated by Dr. Stella Setka, University Advisor & Fellowship Coordinator In an astonishing feat of empathy and narrative invention, novelist Philip Roth imagines an alternate version of American history.In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh’s election is the first in a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small, safe corner of America–and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother.https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/jewishbookgroup/1014/thumbnail.jp