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Also by Phillip Roth:

Everyman, April 2006
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The Plot Against America, September 2004
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American Pastoral, February 1998
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Portnoy's Complaint, September 1994
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Goodbye Columbus, January 1994
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THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA
By: Phillip Roth

Houghton Mifflin
September 2004
400 pages
ISBN: 0618509283
Hardcover
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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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