The plot against America

Resource Information

The work The plot against America represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nesmith Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The plot against America

Statement of responsibility

Philip Roth

Creator

• Roth, Philip

Contributor

• OverDrive, Inc

Subject

• Antisemitism -- Fiction
• Electronic books
• Jewish families -- Fiction
• Jewish fiction
• Jews -- United States -- Fiction
• Lindbergh, Charles A., (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 -- Fiction
• Newark (N.J.) -- Fiction
• Political fiction
• Alternative histories (Fiction)
• Presidents -- United States -- Fiction
• Presidents -- Election -- Fiction

Genre

• Electronic books
• Fiction
• Jewish fiction
• Political fiction
• Alternative histories (Fiction)

Language

eng

Summary

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. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the thirty-third president of the United States, he negotiated a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, whose conquest of Europe and whose virulent anti-Semitic policies he appeared to accept without difficulty. What followed in America is the historical setting for this startling new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Roth, who recounts what it was like for his Newark family-and for a million such families all over the country-during the menacing years of the Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews had every reason to expect the worst

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3568.O855

LC item number

P58 2004eb

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries