The Plot Against America (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Philip Roth
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Alternate history
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, 1940’s, World War II, Ethnic groups, Jews or Jewish life, New Jersey, Politicians, Nazism or Nazis, Presidents, Jews and Gentiles, Heads of state
- Locales: Washington, D.C., Newark, NJ
In the 1940 of Philip Roth's reimagined history, many Americans are so afraid that President Franklin D. Roosevelt is leading the country into the war in Europe that the Republican Party nominates not Wendell Wilkie but Charles A. Lindbergh, the hero who was the first to fly across the Atlantic Ocean solo. To the great consternation of American Jews, Lindbergh wins the election. Jews are concerned because Lindbergh not only has admired the German Luftwaffe but also has accepted a medal from Adolf Hitler himself, a clear sign of his pro-German sympathies.
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