In the novel, Lindbergh unites a fractured Republican Party, and runs for office on an isolationist platform, promising to keep America out of the war raging in Europe. The widespread antiwar sentiment in the country at the time is turned, in Roth’s version, into a winning hand. But before embarking on further discussion of a novel about America that has a swastika on its cover, perhaps some caveats would be wise. Still, what parallels do exist in Roth’s novel are striking. He shouldn’t be there, and it’s as simple as that!”Lindbergh in the novel is clearly an outlier in political life.

Source: New York Times February 19, 2017 22:30 UTC