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Soon to be an HBO miniseries from The Wire's David Simon, premiering March 16.
"A masterwork of counterfactual history."--The New Yorker
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 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.
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.
"A masterwork of counterfactual history."--The New Yorker
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 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.
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.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Roth, Philip
- ISBN: 9780358008811
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.20 x 1.40
- Number Of Pages: 400
- Publication Year: 2020
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HPB S. - 6 years 2 months agoSamantha was so kind in meeting my needs. And the manager Ron, was extremely accommodating to fix a snafu.
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Excellent alternative history
Cherly G. - 6 years 3 months agoExcellent alternative history. Mr Roth did his background work to create a 1940’s that ‘could have been’ but you are glad did not happen. As seen through the eyes of youth.
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Alternative history of America by prize-winning novelist Philip Roth about authoritarian rule of U.S. durin rise of Hitler in Europe.
Stephen M. - 6 years 3 months agoExcellent novel by Prize-winning author Philip Roth. An alternative history that posits “what if Charles Lindbergh, American hero and admirer of Adolph Hitler, had become president of the United States?”