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Oct 3, 2004 · Philip Roth has written a terrific political novel, though in a style his readers might never have predicted -- a fable of an alternative universe, in which America has gone fascist and...
Oct 5, 2004 · Philip Roth. 3.80. 61,744 ratings5,263 reviews. In an astonishing feat of narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President.
The Plot Against America is a novel by Philip Roth published in 2004. It is an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh. The novel follows the fortunes of the Roth family during the Lindbergh presidency, as antisemitism becomes more acceptable in American life and ...
Feb 1, 2017 · Philip Roth’s novel “The Plot Against America” is a masterwork of counterfactual history, a what-if story in which Charles Lindbergh, the aviation hero and Nazi sympathizer, is elected ...
Oct 5, 2004 · A politically charged alternate history in which Aryan supremacist hero Charles Lindbergh unseats FDR in 1940—with catastrophic consequences for America’s Jews.
Sep 19, 2004 · Philip Roth's new novel, "The Plot Against America," which will be published by Houghton Mifflin next month, imagines an America in which the 1940 presidential election resulted not in a...
Aug 6, 2006 · By Lawrence Wright. Illustrated. 469 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $27.95. When Mohamed Atta and his four Saudi confederates commandeered a Boeing 767 and steered it into the north tower of the World Trade...
Oct 5, 2004 · An alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh, whose administration embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism and threatens to destroy one boy’s small corner of America.
The Plot Against America is just such a book. Aviation hero, and vocal Aryan supremacist, Charles Lindbergh defeats Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election on a peace-with-Hitler platform, because the majority of voters fear that FDR plans to bring the US into the war in Europe.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The chilling bestselling alternate history novel of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president whose government embraces a folksy anti-Semitism—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral.
