Revisiting Lindbergh and Winchell Ahead of 'The Plot Against America' (Guest Column) Also more central in this take is Bess’ sister Evelyn ( Winona Ryder), a spinster by the standards of the period, but on the verge of finding love with Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf ( John Turturro), whose capacity as a Lindbergh apologist threatens to tear the family apart. Simon and Burns still have Phillip ( Marriage Story‘s Azhy Robertson) at the center, but they’ve shifted the focus more to the entire clan, including news-obsessed patriarch Herman (Morgan Spector), increasingly concerned matriarch Bess (Zoe Kazan), credulous older son Sandy (Caleb Malis) and hot-headed cousin Alvin (Anthony Boyle), each forced to deal with the Lindbergh presidency and its ramifications in their own way. The latter is filtered largely through the eyes of young Phillip, whose inability to completely process everything that’s happening around him complements that of the reader. out of World War II and the more intimate story of the Levin family. Roth’s novel is split between a third-person explanation of the alt-history rise of aviator Charles Lindbergh from national hero to the presidency in 1940 on a platform of keeping the U.S.
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