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The Plot Against America
Phillip Roth
Houghton Mifflin
September 2004
400 pages ISBN: 0618509283 Hardcover
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Contemporary
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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