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- ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYPhilip Roth's bestselling alternate history--the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president.In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh.
- About the Author: PHILIP ROTH (1933 - 2018) is the author of Goodbye, Columbus (National Book Award), Operation Shylock (PEN/Faulkner Award), Sabbath's Theater (National Book Award), American Pastoral (Pulitzer Prize), and The Human Stain (PEN/Faulkner Award) among many others.
- 400 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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Soon to be an HBO Miniseries from executive producer David Simon "A masterwork of counterfactual history."--The New YorkerBook Synopsis
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history--the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president.
In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter, Lindbergh negotiates a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism.
For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh's election is the first in a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small, safe corner of America-and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother.
"A terrific political novel . . . Sinister, vivid, dreamlike . . . creepily plausible. . . You turn the pages, astonished and frightened." -- The New York Times Book Review
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Sumptuous...An almost unbelievably rich book, and another likely major prizewinner.
Kirkus Reviews, Starred
Publishers Weekly, Starred --
About the Author
PHILIP ROTH (1933 - 2018) is the author of Goodbye, Columbus (National Book Award), Operation Shylock (PEN/Faulkner Award), Sabbath's Theater (National Book Award), American Pastoral (Pulitzer Prize), and The Human Stain (PEN/Faulkner Award) among many others.The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians prize for "the outstanding historical novel on an American theme."