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The Plot Against America

by Philip Roth

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  • World War II
  • Charles Lindbergh and America First

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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The Plot Against America

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 Jewish-American families like the Roths are persecuted on various levels. The narrator and central character in the novel is the young Philip, and the novel follows his coming of age, as well as American politics.

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