It is unwise to draw too many parallels, especially given that this Philip Roth novel is speculative historical fiction, but The Plot Against America achieves a sobering relevance in the United States of 2017. The prose, firstly, is impeccable; the plot, believable; and the warning, a source of sickening dread. There is nothing that ensures that democracies will endure. Indeed they can't in the face of an ignorant or bigoted citizenry, not for long anyway.
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