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...Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin; 391 pages) began in early spring 2001 with a single sentence, not one of Roth's own but a chance comment by the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who speculates in his autobiography that in 1940 some right-wing members of the Republican Party considered drafting the pioneering pilot Charles Lindbergh as a presidential candidate. "That's it," Roth chuckles over the phone, surprisingly relaxed and wry for a man who jealously guards his privacy. "That's all it took. It should always be that easy...
...many people remember the shocking presidential election of 1940, when aviation pioneer and confirmed isolationist Charles Lindbergh defeated Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But Philip Roth imagines it with eery clarity in The Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin; 400 pages), out Oct. 5, an all too plausible work of counter-history in which Roth re-creates his New Jersey childhood in Lindbergh's America. On taking office, Lindbergh promptly cozies up to Hitler, making good on his campaign promise to keep the U.S. out of World War II, then goes on to pass the (entirely fictional) Homestead Act of 1942, which systematically...
Though the archive itself will be housed and made available to the public in Houghton Library, the Davis Center has a number of related human rights programs in the works, the staff member said...
Over the next few months additional changes will be made in these two rooms to finish off the Widener project. The collection of rare books has already been moved to Houghton Library, and additional projects—such as refinishing furniture and floors as well as repairing plaster and installing a new security system...
Fellow KSG student Sara F. Shenkan encourages Barend to enter the race if Houghton does in fact retire...