The Plot Against America (the Complete Works of Philip Roth)
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Philip Roth's late masterpiece, winner of the 2005 Association of American Historians "Outstanding American Historical Fiction Award". "The Plot Against America" is a shocking "counterfactual novel" that presents a semi-fictional alternative history of the United States. Philip Roth uses real details, reasonable situations, and a child's perspective to tell the story of Charles A. Lindbergh, the famous flying hero and fanatical isolationist, who overwhelmingly defeated Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election. From then on, every Jewish American family lived in the shadow of fear. During the anti-Semitic government of Lindbergh, ordinary Jewish families living in Newark experienced years of horrific violence, and millions of Jewish families were torn apart... This post-9/11 work recreates a dark period that has been gradually forgotten by the United States, dramatically showing the lingering fear that envelopes the United States.
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