The Plot Against America

By Philip Roth

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This alternate history takes the premise that Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, and quickly implements a series of anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi policies. While filled with a wealth of period detail, and populated by a number of actual historical figures, the story itself is rambling and fails to make its fictional viewpoint characters – a middle-class New Jersey Jewish family – come alive. Includes chronology and biographies of actual historical persons and events.