In an astonishing feat of narrative invention, our most ambi-tious novelist imagines an alternate version of American his-tory. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he nego-tiates 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 threatens to destroy his small, safe corner of America--and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother.
In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer. Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the Natinal Medal of Arts at the White House, and in 2002 received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to lohn Dos Passos,W'dliam Faulkner, and Saul Bellow) among others. He has twice won the National Book Award, the PENFaulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, In 2005, The Plot Against Americ received the Society of American Historians Award for "the outsanding histori-cal novel on an American theme for 2005--2004."
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June 1940-October 1940
Vote for Lindbergh or Vote for War
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November 1940--June 1942
Loudmouth Jew
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June 1941-December 1941
Following Christians
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January' 1942-February 1942
The Stump
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March 1942--June 1942
Never Before
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May 1942-June 1942
Their Country
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June 19412--October 1942
The Winchell Riots
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October 1942
Bad Days
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October 1942
Postscript
Note to the Reader
A True Chronology of the Major Figures
Other Historical Figures in the Work
Some Dicumentation
