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A Look Back at What Author Philip Roth Said About ‘The Plot Against America,’ Now On HBO
“A new HBO series based on Philip Roth’s novel “The Plot Against America” reimagines another period of national trauma, but with a fictive twist. In his world, Roth has the national hero and aviator Charles Lindbergh winning the 1940 presidential election amidst anti-Semitic activity. Jeffrey Brown spoke with Roth when the book was published in 2004, and we share an excerpt.”
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