The Plot Against America

“Every day I ask myself the same question: How can this be happening in America? How can people like these be in…

“Neither was their being Jews a mishap or a misfortune or an achievement to be ‘proud’ of. What they were was what…

“It went without saying that Mr. Mawhinney was a Christian, a long-standing member of the great overpowering…

“‘We knew things were bad,’ my father told the friends he immediately sat down to phone when we got home, ‘But not…

“Though on the morning after the election disbelief prevailed, especially among the pollsters, by the day after that…

“I pledged allegiance to the flag of our homeland every morning at school. I sang of its marvels with my classmates…