![]() ![]() ![]() Having been given Roth’s blessing before his 2018 death, David Simon and Ed Burns adapt the story with great care for their HBO limited series, expanding upon characters’ stories in compelling ways and including their own personal touches. ![]() ![]() His father, Herman, lives in a cocoon of outrage, hanging on the declarations of his favorite radio commentator, Walter Winchell, and clinging to an all-American notion of fairness his older brother, Sandy, starts to associate non-Jewish society with a sense of liberation his hooligan cousin Alvin leaves Jersey to fight on behalf of the Canadians his mother, Bess, struggles to shoulder everyone’s pain along with her own anxieties and his Aunt Evelyn becomes romantically involved with the superstar Rabbi Bengelsdorf, who is either a forward-thinking Jewish-American leader or a pawn in a game that ensures the Jews will lose. The impact of Lindbergh’s ascendancy in Plot Against America, parallel to an uprising in Fascist policy that directly seeks to uproot Jewish-Americans, is depicted as a devastating experience for the Roth family in New Jersey, as young Philip watches his loved ones clash ideologically. Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America vividly depicts a creepy what-if scenario: What if anti-Semite and revered wonder pilot Charles Lindbergh beat Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election on an “America First” campaign that promised to keep the United States out of World War II? ![]()
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