description: 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 whose virulent anti-Semitic policies he appeared to accept without difficulty. What 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.
language: English
title: The Plot Against America
titlecomplete: The Plot Against America
characters: Charles Lindbergh
genres: Jewish, American, Politics, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Alternate History
ratings_count: 59873
places: New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: WH Smith Literary Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: James Fenimore Cooper Prize, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Tähtivaeltaja Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Sidewise Award
category: Long Form
publisher: Recorded Books