Historian Corey Robin and The New Yorker's Andrew Marantz join host Sam Graham-Felsen to discuss The Plot Against America, Philip Roth's counter-historical novel, in which fascist-sympathizer Charles A. Lindbergh becomes President of the United States.
Corey Robin is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and other publications, Robin is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the American Political Science Association. He is the author of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, The Reactionary Mind, and Fear. Andrew Marantz, a staff writer for The New Yorker, has contributed to the magazine since 2011, writing extensively about technology, social media, politics, and the press, and also about comedy and pop culture. He has written about virtual-reality narratives, hip-hop purism, and the “Truman Show” delusion, plus dozens of Talk of the Town pieces. He is the author of Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation.To learn more about the Philip Roth Personal Library, visit prpl.npl.org.