@HeerJeet Roth wrote American Pastoral as political and historical analysis. I don't know what other way to read it.
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@StephenMarche It's a powerful novel about family dynamics but not very reliable guide to what the New Left was all about (nor should it be)2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet And the same phony self-righteousness threatens to overwhelm us again.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@StephenMarche Hippies barely exist as plausible figures in novel. Book is about father baffled by daughter who does strange, violent things3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@StephenMarche Right, which is one reason I don't take the book seriously as political history. Wethermen weren't Jainists.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet A lot of them became non-violent Buddhists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacobs_(activist) …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@StephenMarche Jainist part of American Pastoral more influenced by an argument Roth had with Updike than from actual history of Weathermen2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@StephenMarche No: I'm repeating a persuasive bit of critical analysis made by Claudia Roth Pierpont in Roth Unbound.
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