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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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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
2020-02, Vintage International
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2005-09, Vintage International
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Complô contra a América
2005, Companhia das Letras
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Verschwörung gegen Amerika
2005, Carl Hanser Verlag
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The Plot Against America
2004, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Plot Against America
2004, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Plot Against America
2004, Jonathan Cape, Jonathan Cape Ltd
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The Plot Against America
2004, Houghton Mifflin Company, Houghton Mifflin Co.
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