We may never know what prompted two of the most sociopolitically concerned
writers in modern television history to turn at this precise juncture to
adapting Philip Roth’s 2004 novel
The Plot Against America, which imagines an America that has elected a populist celebrity demagogue as president and begins to slide towards fascism. But they have, and David Simon’s and Ed Burns’s six part HBO series has reached our shores. Roth always insisted that his story about aviation hero Charles Lindbergh beating Roosevelt in the 1940 election was not a political allegory. But politics has changed.
Read more at:
The Plot Against America review – fascism grips in taut political allegory | Television & radio | The Guardian
The Plot Against America, which imagines an America that has elected a populist celebrity demagogue as president and begins to slide towards fascism. But they have, and David Simon’s and Ed Burns’s six part HBO series has reached our shores. Roth always insisted that his story about aviation hero Charles Lindbergh beating Roosevelt in the 1940 election was not a political allegory. But politics has changed.
Read more at:
The Plot Against America review – fascism grips in taut political allegory | Television & radio | The Guardian
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