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The Plot Against America is a novel by Philip Roth published in 2004. It is an alternate history in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh. The novel follows the fortunes of the Roth family during the Lindbergh presidency, as antisemitism becomes more accepted in American life and Jewish-American families like the Roths are persecuted on various levels. The narrator and central charac... More

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Philip Roth

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Sep 2004

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Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is an American novelist. He gained fame with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, an irreverent and humorous portrait of Jewish-American life that earned him the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. In 1969 he became a major celebrity with the publication of...

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2004

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Year	Award	Award Winner
2004	Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History	Philip Roth
2005	James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction	Philip Roth
2004	New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year	Philip Roth

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Year	Award	Award Nominee
2004	Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History	Philip Roth
2004	National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction	Philip Roth
2005	Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel	Philip Roth

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