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Rent The Plot Against America
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Format: Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: Sep 2005
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 400
Synopsis
Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear. Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.
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