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The Plot Against America

Philip Roth

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The Plot Against America won the WHSmiths Literary Award. When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the 33rd president of the United States, he negotiated a cordial 'understanding' with Adolf Hitler. What then followed in America is the historical setting for this startling new novel by Philip Roth, who recounts what it was like for his Newark family during the menacing years of the Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews had every reason to expect the worst.

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Publisher
Random House
Year
2005
ISBN-13
9780099478560
Genre
FictionScience Fiction
Topics
Alternate historyAntisemitism and fascismFamily under political persecution

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