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American Dreams: How Bush Shaped Our Reading of Roth’s ‘The Plot Against America’

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Philip Roth denied that ‘The Plot Against America’ was an indictment of George W. Bush. But the 2004 novel’s themes of powerlessness and rage certainly resonated at the time.

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