Plot Against America

A Novel

eBook, 400 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

ISBN:
978-0-547-34531-4
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Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history—the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president—is soon to be an HBO limited series.

In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter, Lindbergh negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism.

For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh’s election is the first in a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small, safe corner of America–and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother. www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/The-Plot-Against-America/9780547345314

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I was enthralled by this chilling tale until the last two chapters. I didn’t like that the story essentially made this alternate timeline converge back with our own. I was much more interested in seeing the longer term ramifications of this excellent scenario. Alas, it ended with a whimper for me.

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Subjects

  • Jews, fiction
  • New jersey, fiction
  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Presidents, united states, fiction
  • Fiction, political
  • Fiction, alternative history