'In The Plot Against America, Roth precisely described the sinister and
chilling nightmare in which the United States now finds itself...
America has not read enough of Philip Roth' Bernard-Henri Levy When the
renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh
defeats Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential
election, fear invades every Jewish household in America.
Not
only has Lindbergh publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a
pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the 33rd
president of the United States, he negotiates a cordial 'understanding'
with Adolf Hitler, guaranteeing peaceful relations between the two
nations. What then follows is the alternative America of this startling
counterfactual novel by Philip Roth, who recounts what it was like for
his Newark family during the menacingly anti-Semitic years of the
Lindbergh presidency. Jewish families are shaken violently apart, whilst
America is oblivious to its own dark metamorphosis.
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
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