The Plot Against America

The Plot Against America is an alternate history novel that imagines a world where Franklin D. Roosevelt is defeated in the 1940 presidential election by the heroic aviator and isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Lindbergh, who is depicted as an anti-Semite, quickly negotiates an 'understanding' with Adolf Hitler, and the new government begins implementing a program of 'folksy anti-Semitism.' The chilling story is narrated by a young boy named Philip (a fictionalized version of the author), and it follows how these menacing political events affect the daily lives of the Roth family and other Jewish families in their Newark, New Jersey neighborhood, forcing them to confront the possibility of persecution in their own country.

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