The Plot Against America

The Washington Post | October 3, 2004| | Copyright

THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA

By Philip Roth. Houghton Mifflin. 391 pp. $26 Philip Roth's huge, inflammatory, painfully moving new novel draws upon a persistent theme in American life: "It can't happen here." That's how we express our longing to believe that our ideals are too strong to be shoved aside by some cruder impulse, and our nagging fear that our democracy is too fragile to withstand assault by the muscle of fascism. In 1935 Sinclair Lewis took the familiar phrase as the title for a novel that depicted the seeds of totalitarianism sprouting in a small New England town; It Can't Happen ...

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