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Product Identifiers

PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

ISBN-100618509283

ISBN-139780618509287

eBay Product ID (ePID)30527714

Product Key Features

Book TitlePlot Against America

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicLiterary, Political, Alternative History, Jewish

GenreFiction

AuthorPhilip Roth

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight24.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-047490

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsSumptuous...An almost unbelievably rich book, and another likely major prizewinner. Kirkus Reviews, Starred Stunning...Roth's writing has never been so direct and accessible while retaining its stylistic precision and insights into human foibles. Publishers Weekly, Starred, Stunning...Roth's writing has never been so direct and accessible while retaining its stylistic precision and insights into human foibles.

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal813.54

Table Of Contentcontents 1 June 1940-October 1940 Vote for Lindbergh or Vote for War * 1 2 November 1940-June 1941 Loudmouth Jew * 44 3 June 1941-December 1941 Following Christians * 83 4 January 1942-February 1942 The Stump * 122 5 March 1942-June 1942 Never Before * 153 6 May 1942-June 1942 Their Country * 204 7 June 1942-October 1942 The Winchell Riots * 237 8 October 1942 Bad Days * 287 9 October 1942 Perpetual Fear * 328 Postscript Note to the Reader 364 A True Chronology of the Major Figures 365 Other Historical Figures in the Work 380 Some Documentation 385

SynopsisWhen 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 virulent anti-Semitic policies he appeared to accept without difFiculty. What then 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., 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 sel shly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but upon taking of ce as the thirty-third president of the United States, he negotiated a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, whose conquest of Europe and virulent anti-Semitic policies he appeared to accept without dif culty. What then followed in America is the historical setting for this startling new book by Pulitzer Prizewinner 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3568.O855P58 2004