The Plot Against America is a novel by Philip Roth published in 2004. It is an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh. The novel follows the fortunes of the Roth family during the Lindbergh presidency, as antisemitism becomes …
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The Plot Against America is a novel by Philip Roth published in 2004. It is an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh. The novel follows the fortunes of the Roth family during the Lindbergh presidency, as antisemitism becomes more accepted in American life and Jewish-American families like the Roths are persecuted on various levels. The narrator and central character in the novel is the young Philip, and the care with which his confusion and terror are rendered makes the novel as much about the mysteries of growing up as about American politics. Roth based his novel on the isolationist ideas espoused by Lindbergh in real life as a spokesman for the America First Committee, and on his own experiences growing up in Newark, New Jersey. The novel received praise for the realism of its world and its treatment of topics such as antisemitism, trauma, and the perception of history. The novel depicts the Weequahic section of Newark which includes Weequahic High School from which Roth graduated.
In 2005, the novel won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction given by the Society of American Historians. It won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and came in 11th for the 2005 Locus Awards.
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The Plot Against America
Paperback, 391 pages
English language
Published February 2020 by Vintage International.
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- 978-0-593-31088-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1142109263
The Plot Against America
Hardcover, 391 pages
English language
Published Dec. 31, 2003 by HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO@.
- ISBN:
- 9790618509286Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 937195491
The Plot Against America
Hardcover, 391 pages
English language
Published 2004 by Jonathan Cape, Jonathan Cape Ltd.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-224-07453-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 56804910
Verschwörung gegen Amerika
Hardcover, 430 pages
German language
Published 2005 by Carl Hanser Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-446-20662-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 163629352
The Plot Against America
Paperback, 392 pages
English language
Published 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7394-5213-4Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1037209386
La Conjura Contra America / The Plot Against America
Paperback, 428 pages
Spanish language
Published by Mondadori (IT).
- ISBN:
- 978-987-9397-41-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 154668776
Complô contra a América
Paperback, 428 pages
Portuguese language
Published 2005 by Companhia das Letras.
- ISBN:
- 978-85-359-0722-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 71194819
Plot Against America
eBook, 400 pages
English language
Published 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-547-34531-4Copied ISBN!
Conjura Contra America, La
Hardcover, 496 pages
Spanish language
Published by Random House Mondadori.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-307-34481-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 63761237
The Plot Against America
Hardcover, 723 pages
English language
Published 2005 by Thorndike Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-5-8370-0491-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1060735542
Conjura Contra America (Literatura)
Hardcover, 432 pages
Spanish language
Published Jan. 1, 2005 by Grijalbo Mondadori Sa.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-397-1254-1Copied ISBN!
La conjura contra América / The Plot Against America
Paperback, 432 pages
Published by Debolsillo.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-9032-145-4Copied ISBN!
The Plot Against America
Paperback, 391 pages
English language
Published September 2005 by Vintage International.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4000-7949-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 954095892
The Plot Against America
Hardcover, 400 pages
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-358-00881-1Copied ISBN!
Plot Against America
400 pages
English language
Published 2015 by Penguin Random House.
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- 978-0-09-947856-0Copied ISBN!
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