Roth's A Plot Against America

[Keith McMullen]

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/47/books-bernhard.php

"FOR A “WHAT IF?” NOVEL with a sensational, pulp-fiction premise, The 
Plot Against America is awfully tasteful — maybe too tasteful. There’s 
no real bang, just a prolonged series of terrified whimpers and 
sporadic explosions. But the lack of sensationalism also makes the book 
convincing. Told from the viewpoint of Roth’s 7-year-old self, the 
story focuses largely on mundanities and childhood apprehensions and 
traumas. This is a 7-year-old’s world — which happens also to be an 
incipiently fascist and anti-Semitic world."