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0-224-07453-9. OCLC. 56804910. The Plot Against America is a novel by Philip Roth published in 2004. It is an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh. The novel follows the fortunes of the Roth family during the Lindbergh presidency, as antisemitism becomes more ...
Philip James DeFranco [3] (born Philip James Franchini Jr.; [4] born December 1, 1985), commonly known by his online nickname PhillyD, and formerly known as sxephil, is an American media host and YouTube personality. He is best known for The Philip DeFranco Show, a news commentary show centered on current events in politics and pop culture .
PS3568.O855 W46 1995. Preceded by. Letting Go. Followed by. Portnoy's Complaint. When She Was Good is a 1967 novel by Philip Roth. [1] It is Roth's only novel with a female protagonist.
Standing in the Light, The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, is a Dear America novel written by Mary Pope Osborne. It was first published in 1998. It was first published in 1998. The novel is set in Delaware Valley , Pennsylvania in 1763.
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a 2005 biography of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the leader of the Manhattan Project which produced the first nuclear weapons, written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin over a period of 25 years. It won numerous awards, including the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for ...
Acts 8. Acts 8:26–32 in Papyrus 50, written in 3rd century. Acts 8 is the eighth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the burial of Stephen, the beginnings of Christian persecution, the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the people of Samaria and the conversion of an Ethiopian official.
Robert M. Adams, in The New York Review of Books called Roth's work "a major achievement." R.Z. Sheppard, in Time, viewed the book's concerns as ethnic: "There is a great distance between Portnoy's Complaint, with its stage-Jewish parents, and Patrimony, the perfect eulogy for a stiff-necked elder of the tribe. Yet in celebrating his father ...
The book has nine chapters. The first chapter, Don't Try, is named after the philosophy of Charles Bukowski, who served as a major inspiration for the whole book. The chapters have the following titles: Don't Try. Happiness is a problem. You are not special. The value of suffering. You are always choosing. You are wrong about everything (But so ...