If the central idea of Roth’s novel does historical injustice to Lindbergh, that is truly unfortunate. However, if I’m remembering correctly, the novel itself never portrays Lindbergh as virulently anti-Jewish. He wants to stay out of Europe’s war, and he wants Jews to be Americans first and Jews as an afterthought, if at all. That, I found, was the most chilling notion in the story — the American “final solution” would not be to eradicate Jews, but to eradicate Judaism. In the modern era of intermarriage and decreasing observance, it’s an all-too-real problem.