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When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but upon taking office as the thirty-third president of the United States, he negotiated a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler, whose conquest of Europe and virulent anti-Semitic policies he appeared to accept without difficulty.
What then followed in America is the historical setting for this startling new book by Pulitzer Prize–winner Philip Roth, who recounts what it was like for his Newark family — and for a million such families all over the country — during the menacing years of the Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews had every reason to expect the worst.
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American Historical Fiction, Roth, Philip - Prose & Criticism, Fiction, Fiction - General, Spanish: Adult Fiction, Historical - General, Political, Elección, Alternative histories (Fiction), Jews, Presidentes, Political fiction, Presidents, Autobiographical fiction, Jewish families, Election, Antisemitism, Jewish fiction, Presidents -- United States -- Fiction, Presidents -- Election -- Fiction, Jews -- United States -- Fiction, Jewish families -- Fiction, Antisemitism -- Fiction, Newark (N.Y.) -- Fiction, Politics and government, University of South Alabama, Presidents, united states, fiction, Jews, fiction, New jersey, fiction, Fiction, alternative history, Fiction, political, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American literature, Large type books, Portuguese language materials, Fiction, jewish, Jewish Americans, Prejudice, Humiliation, Autobiographical novelsPeople
Bernard Baruch, Louis D. Brandeis, Charles Coughlin, Edward Flanagan, Robert M. La Follette Jr., Leo Frank, Felix Frankfurter, Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), Hank Greenberg, William Randolph Hearst, J. Edgar Hoover, Harold L. Ickes, Fritz Julius Kuhn, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Herbert H. Lehman, John L. Lewis, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Vincent Murphy, Gerald P. Nye, Westbrook Pegler, Joachim Prinz, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Leverett Saltonstall, Gerald L. K. Smith, I.F. Stone, Dorothy Thompson, Burton K. Wheeler, David T. Wilentz, Wendell Willkie, Abner Zwilman, Hitler Youth, Ku Klux Klan, Seldon, Fiorello La Guardia, Walter Winchell, Philip Roth, Alvin, Sandy Roth, Evelyn, Lionel Bengelsdorf, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), America First Party, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Henry Ford, Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974)Places
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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 accepted 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 care with which his confusion and terror are rendered makes the novel as much about the mysteries of growing up as about American politics. Roth based his novel on the isolationist ideas espoused by Lindbergh in real life as a spokesman for the America First Committee, and on his own experiences growing up in Newark, New Jersey. The novel received praise for the realism of its world and its treatment of topics such as antisemitism, trauma, and the perception of history. The novel depicts the Weequahic section of Newark which includes Weequahic High School from which Roth graduated.
In 2005, the novel won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction given by the Society of American Historians. It won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and came in 11th for the 2005 Locus Awards.
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