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Aired: Friday, December 03, 2004 8-9PM ET
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Philip Roth is an award-winning American writer. He is also one of the most pre-eminent writers of the Jewish-American experience. His books, "Portnoy's Complaint," "American Pastoral" and "The Human Stain" among them, paint an intricate, expansive, and generous picture of late 20th-century America.
In his new novel, "The Plot Against America," Roth relives his own childhood in Newark, New Jersey in a world that never existed. The young Philip Roth grows up in an imaginary America where Charles Lindbergh is president, America has signed non-aggression pacts with Germany and Japan, fascism lurks everywhere, and virulent anti-Semitism rises up against American-Jews. "Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear," says Roth as both the author and the young boy.
Tune in to hear American master Philip Roth talk about his new book that throws a commanding look at the question: "What if it happened here?"
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Past Week in News Review |
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Among the major news that made headlines this week:
1) Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns. Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is nominated to take his place. Health and Human Services Commissioner Tommy Thompson announced his resignation as well.
2) President Bush sticks to his January 30th, 2004 timeline for elections in Iraq, despite continued violence and calls to move the date back.
3) After weeks of unrest, Ukraine's Supreme Court nullifies the country's disputed Nov. 21, 2004 presidential election.
4) Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman calls for the resignation of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan after deeming the U.N.'s Iraq oil-for-food program corrupt.
5) Leaked grand jury testimony confirms that at least one Major League baseball star knowingly used performance-enhancing steroids and slugger Barry Bonds may have used them unknowingly.
6) The Supreme Court hears arguments over whether states can allow medicinal use of marijuana.
7) And after 23 years at the helm of NBC Nightly News, Tom Brokaw says good-bye.
Hear On Point host Tom Ashbrook and news analyst Jack Beatty look back at this week's major news.
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