Author(s): Philip Roth

Fiction

"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. Lindbergh had publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany. Then, upon taking office as the 33rd president of the United States, he also negotiated a cordial 'understanding' with Adolf Hitler. What followed in America is the historical setting for this startling new novel by Pulitzer-prize winner Philip Roth, who recounts what it was like for his Newark family during the menacing years of the Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews had every reason to expect the worst. Praise for The Plot Against America- '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 * 'The word genius doesn't seem excessive utterly plausible. The Plot Against America creates its reality magisterially, in long, fluid sentences that carry you beyond scepticism' The Guardian