The Plot Against America: A Novel

Roth, Philip

ISBN 10: 0618509283 / ISBN 13: 9780618509287

Published by Houghton Mifflin, 2004

About this Item

The Plot Against America (2004) by Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Roth is an alternate history novel detailing a fictional 1940s America where aviation hero Charles Lindbergh defeats FDR in a landslide election. The story explores the rise of a populist, anti-Semitic, and pro-fascist U.S. government, viewed through the eyes of a Jewish family in Newark.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Plot Against America: A Novel
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618509283
• ISBN 13: 9780618509287
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 3.18W x 15.88H x 22.86D centimeters 3.18 centimeters width by 15.88 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1.55 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • FICTION
  • FIRST EDITION POTPOURRI

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Synopsis

In a novel of alternative history, aviation hero and isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, negotiating a cordial accord with Adolf Hitler, accepting his conquest of Europe and anti-Semitic policies, and igniting a storm of fear for Jewish families throughout America. 150,000 first printing.

About the Author

In 1997, Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times.

In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.”

Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award for “a body of work…of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship” and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for achievement in American Fiction, given to a writer whose “scale of achievement over a sustained career…places him or her in the highest rank of American literature.”

Roth is the only living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. The last of eight volumes is scheduled for publication in 2013.