For example, one who defines historical truth as a series of actions, events, and outcomes might characterize the United States in 2010 as a nation dedicated to the liberal values of government-provided universal health care and green energy on account of Barack Obama's victory over John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. In Roth's view, historical truth is not defined by actions, events, and outcomes, but by the various possibilities inherent in any moment that reveal the divided consciousness of the body politic. Roth demonstrates that the identity of a nation cannot be encapsulated in a chronicle of actual events, but that the innumerable potential plotlines that do not come into being largely on account of historical contingency reveal the plurality that comprises any given place at any given time. Specifically, I posit that Roth submits his counterfactual history, not as a tendentious fictional commentary on 'real life,' but as a true history that challenges and supplements our notion of American identity as defined by the cause and effect of actual events that comprises its factual history. I draw on Linda Hutcheon's theory of historiographic metafiction to examine Roth's exploration and revision of the ways we represent and comprehend history. Philip Roth's The Plot Against America (2004), which presents an alternate history of the United States during the years 1940-42, has been interpreted by reviewers and critics as a social satire, a cautionary tale, and a veiled allegory of the George W. 'One can produce an imaginary discourse about real events that may not be less 'true' for being 'imaginary.''

Very good binding, DJ torn at the bottom edge.'There's the not-so that reveals the set-that's fiction.' Clean, very good binding, DJ has edge wear at the top and bottom spine (7) Zuckerman Unbound, Farrar Staus and Giroux, First Printing 1981, 225 pages. (6) When she was good, Random House, First Printing 1967, 306 pages. Burn mark on the title page that created a hole in the paper glue residue from DJ and nameplate removal, margin marks on a few pages. (5) The Professor of Desire, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1st Printing, 1977, 263 pages. Clean, very good binding DJ tears at the top edge. (4) The Plot Against America, Houghton Mifflin, 2004, 391 pages. Clean, DJ has minor wear (3) Nemesis, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010, 280 pages.

Clean text, good binding, DJ has large piece missing in the back (2) The Ghost Writer, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st printing, 1979, 179 pages. All are hardcover: (1) The Great American Novel Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

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