The Plot against America
“Enraging and discomfiting, imaginative and utterly—terrifyingly—believable.”
San Francisco Chronicle
A New York Times Notable Book
A BookRiot Pick of 15 Great Alternative History Books and Series
A London Guardian Pick of Best Books of the 21st Century
A New York Public Library Staff Pick
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A Washington Post Staff Pick of 7 Great Political Books
In an astonishing feat of empathy and narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history.
In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected president. Shortly thereafter, he 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.
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