The Plot Against America -- Philip Roth, Paperback

Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history novel--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.

Author: Philip Roth
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/27/2005
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.22h x 6.36w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781400079490

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.2
Point Value: 24
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 84291 / Plot Against America


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 09/01/2005 pg. 31
New York Times 10/02/2005 pg. 32
Kliatt 11/01/2005 pg. 17
New York Times Book Review 03/16/2014 pg. 15

About the Author

In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians' Prize for "the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004." Roth received PEN's two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.