The Plot Against America

philip roth

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.

Genres fictionhistorical fictionalternate historyliteraturescience fictionpoliticsnovelsbook clubjewishamerican

391 pages, Hardcover

First published October 5,2004

Literary awards

locus award, wh smith literary award, james fenimore cooper prize, national book critics circle award, tähtivaeltaja award, sidewise award,

Places

newark new jersey, new jersey,

This edition

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
Published: September 30, 2004 by Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 9780224074537
ASIN: 0224074539
Language: English

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Charles Lindbergh

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist, best known as the pilot of the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.In March 1932 his infant son, Charles,...

About the author

philip roth

Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Philip Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
Roth was one of the most honored American writers of his generation. He received the National Book Critics Circle award for The Counterlife, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock, The Human Stain, and Everyman, a second National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater, and the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 2005, the Library of America began publishing his complete works, making him the second author so anthologized while still living, after Eudora Welty. Harold Bloom named him one of the four greatest American novelists of his day, along with Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo. In 2001, Roth received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize in Prague.