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History influenced The Plot Against America
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
- World War II
- Charles Lindbergh and America First
The evidence
An alternate history built on real people: Charles Lindbergh, the aviator and isolationist spokesman of America First, defeats Roosevelt in 1940, and Roth's own family in Newark lives through the antisemitism that follows.
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