The Plot Against America
  • Published:
    Oct-2004
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    1940's-1950's
  • Pages:
    391
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Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history -- the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president -- is soon to be an HBO limited series.
 
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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    • Oct-2005
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1400079497
    • ISBN13: 9781400079490
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    • Oct-2005
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0099478560
    • ISBN13: 9780099478560
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    • Nov-2018
    • Vintage
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1529110815
    • ISBN13: 9781529110814
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    • Mar-2020
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0593310888
    • ISBN13: 9780593310885
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    • Oct-2004
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0618509283
    • ISBN13: 9780618509287
    •  
    • Dec-2004
    • CCV
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0224074539
    • ISBN13: 9780224074537
    •  
    • Mar-2020
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0358008816
    • ISBN13: 9780358008811
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    • Oct-2004
    • Harcourt
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0547345313
    • ISBN13: 9780547345314
    •  
    • Oct-2004
    • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Oct-2005
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Dec-2010
    • Vintage
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1446400646
    • ISBN13: 9781446400647
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    • Oct-2004
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 0618509291
    • ISBN13: 9780618509294
    •  
    • Dec-2004
    • Recorded Books
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1419318934
    • ISBN13: 9781419318931
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    • Apr-2016
    • Blackstone Audio, Inc.
    • Audible
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    • Jan-2005
    • Thorndike Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0786271698
    • ISBN13: 9780786271696
    • Large Print



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