The Plot Against America

Blurb

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 Lindberghs election is the first in a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small safe corner of Americaand with it his mother his father and his older brother