Anti-Semitism is a problem in this world. I worry about it and all forms of racism and meanness. But I think we can address this problem without concocting sick fantasies that are a slap in the face to so many American people, like Philip Roth has done here with this book. A more reasonable and intriguing storyline would have been, "What would have happened if the Communists within the Roosevelt government had been discovered and outed in 1944 instead of after the fall of the Soviet Union?" I think it's despicable of the author to make such an effort at linking Nazism, Christianity, and rural America. This East Coast elitism doesn't serve anyone, except the REAL enemies of our nation who are REALLY plotting against it. I've never read any of Roth's other stuff. I hope it's better than this trite, repetitive, and frankly ugly book. Hey, it's a free country. Roth can cook up his strange bigoted brew, and I can criticize him for doing it. God bless America!