The Plot Against America - Softcover

Roth, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099484889 ISBN 13: 9780099484882

Publisher: Vintage, 2005

Synopsis

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 publicly blamed the Jews for 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. 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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Review:

"It's one of the great political novels for its depiction of how alterations in power affect ordinary men and women, and how obedience brings disaster." -- Linda Grant * New Statesman *

Book Description:

'The Plot Against America is an epic built - painstakingly, passionately, near perfectly - of the small structures of the particular. A dark, humane masterpiece. Roth is at the peak of his powers' The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0099484889
• ISBN 13: 9780099484882
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480