The Plot Against America

The Plot Against America is Philip Roth's alternate history novel imagining a United States in which aviator and isolationist Charles Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, campaigning on a platform of keeping America out of the war in Europe. The story is narrated by a fictionalized young Philip Roth, growing up in a Jewish working-class family in Newark, New Jersey, as the Lindbergh administration moves toward accommodation with Nazi Germany and sets in motion policies that expose American Jews to government-sanctioned discrimination and violence. The novel works both as a political counterfactual and as a ground-level portrait of how ordinary family life cracks under the pressure of state-sponsored prejudice. Winner of the Society of American Historians' Prize for outstanding historical novel. Adapted as an HBO miniseries in 2020.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. National Book Critics Circle Award nominee (2004). Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction winner (2005). ISBN: 0618509283. #10640.
Fine in fine dust jacket.