| The Plot Against America Contributor(s): Roth, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 1400079497 ISBN-13: 9781400079490 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2005 Annotation: In this alternate history, Pulitzer Prize winner Roth considers what it would be like for his Newark family during the menacing years of a Charles Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews would have every reason to expect the worst. Young Adult. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Alternative History - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Jewish |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005050301 |
| Lexile Measure: 1640 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.36" W x 8.22" (0.69 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 84291 Reading Level: 8.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 24.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |