The Plot Against America
Started: Sept 20 Finished:
p.84:
“Under the auspices of “Just Folks”—described by Lindbergh‘s newly created office of American absorption as “a volunteer work program, introducing city youth to the traditional ways of heartland life“
- Sounds like something in which Kim Reynolds would participate
p.137
- Philip is having to face up to Alvin’s “stump.” And soon Herb (the father’s name? I forget) is going to have to confront the consequences of an interventionist world stance. Will he remain true to his tenets?
“You can see,” he told me, struggling now to suppress disgust with the futility of everything, “how good at doing this you get,” and resumed the rewrapping, which, like the healing, appeared destined to go on in our bedroom forever.
October 8, 2024
P.176:
But under Lindbergh, government efforts at harassing or intimidating Bund members ceased and they were able to regain their strength by identifying themselves not only as American patriots of German extraction opposed to America’s intervention in foreign wars but as staunch enemies of the Soviet Union. The deep fascist fellowship uniting the Bund was now masked by vociferous patriotic declamations on the peril of a worldwide Communist revolution.
10/10/24, 12:11:40 PM