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What is'The Plot Against America' about?

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The Plot Against America is a 2004 historical alternate history novel by Philip Roth. Set between 1939 and 1941, the novel imagines a world in which Charles Lindbergh defeats Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 United States presidential election and begins to implement policies in line with his isolationist and anti-Semitic views. The novel follows the lives of the Roth family, who are Jewish and live in Newark, New Jersey.
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