TY - BOOK AB - 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 whose virulent anti-Semitic policies he appeared to accept without difficulty. What followed in America is the historical setting for this startling new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Roth, who recounts what it was like for his Newark family-and for a million such families all over the country-during the menacing years of the Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews had every reason to expect the worst. AU - Roth, Philip. CN - PS3568.O855 CN - PS3568.O855 CY - Boston : DA - 2004. ID - 311388 KW - Presidents KW - Presidents KW - Jews KW - Jewish families KW - Antisemitism KW - Jewish fiction. LK - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/hm051/2004047490.html LK - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm051/2004047490.html LK - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hm051/2004047490.html N2 - 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 whose virulent anti-Semitic policies he appeared to accept without difficulty. What followed in America is the historical setting for this startling new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Roth, who recounts what it was like for his Newark family-and for a million such families all over the country-during the menacing years of the Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews had every reason to expect the worst. PB - Houghton Mifflin Co., PP - Boston : PY - 2004. SN - 0618509283 SN - 9780618509287 T1 - The plot against America / TI - The plot against America / UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/hm051/2004047490.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm051/2004047490.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hm051/2004047490.html ER -