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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 ...
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The True History Behind ‘The Plot Against America’. Philip Roth’s classic novel, newly adapted by HBO, envisions a world in which Charles Lindbergh wins the 1940 presidential election ...
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Oct 5, 2004 · Philip Roth. 3.80. 60,991 ratings5,190 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.
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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.
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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...
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...
Chapter 1. Philip Roth is just seven in the fall of 1940 when aviator Charles Lindbergh is elected president of the United States, having campaigned on an isolationist, “America First” platform. Lindbergh’s unseating of Franklin Delano Roosevelt sends shockwaves through Philip’s predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey.