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The Plot Against America
BOOKS BY PHILIP ROTH
ZUCKERMAN BOOKS
The Ghost Writer
Zuckerman Unbound
The Anatomy Lesson
The Prague Orgy
The Counterlife
American Pastoral
I Married a Communist
The Human Stain
ROTH BOOKS
The Facts * Deception
Patrimony * Operation Shylock
The Plot Against America
KEPESH BOOKS
The Breast
The Professor of Desire
The Dying Animal
MISCELLANY
Reading Myself and Others
Shop Talk
OTHER BOOKS
Goodbye, Columbus * Letting Go
When She Was Good * Portnoy's Complaint * Our Gang
The Great American Novel * My Life as a Man
Sabbath's Theater
The Plot Against America
Philip Roth
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON * NEW YORK
2004
Copyright © 2004 by Philip RothALL RIGHTS RESERVED
For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Roth, Philip. The plot against America / Philip Roth. p. cm.ISBN: 978-1-4000-7949-0 I. Title. PS3568.O855P58 2004
813'.54—dc22 2004047490
To S.F.R.
CONTENTS
1
June 1940–October 1940
Vote for Lindbergh or Vote for War
2
November 1940–June 1941
Loudmouth Jew
3
June 1941–December 1941
Following Christians
4
January 1942–February 1942
The Stump
5
March 1942–June 1942
Never Before
6
May 1942–June 1942
Their Country
7
June 1942–October 1942
The Winchell Riots
8
October 1942
Bad Days
9
October 1942
Perpetual Fear
Postscript
Note to the Reader
A True Chronology of the Major Figures
Other Historical Figures in the Work
Some Documentation
1
June 1940–October 1940
Vote for Lindbergh or Vote for War
FEAR PRESIDES over these memories, a perpetual fear. Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.
When the first shock came in June of 1940—the nomination for the presidency of Charles A. Lindbergh, America's international aviation hero, by the Republican Convention at Philadelphia—my father was thirty-nine, an insurance agent with a grade school education, earning a little under fifty dollars a week, enough for the basic bills to be paid on time but for little more. My mother—who'd wanted to go to teachers' college but couldn't because of the expense, who'd lived at home working as an office secretary after finishing high school, who'd kept us from feeling poor during the worst of the Depre ............

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