Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br><p>Never more relevant than now" this national bestseller will challenge all who believe that ??it can't happen here.??<br> ?<br> ???A terrific political novel . . . Sinister?? vivid?? dreamlike . . . creepily plausible. . . You turn the pages?? astonished and frightened.?? ? <i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br> ?<br> In an extraordinay feat of narrative invention?? Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter?? Lindbergh negotiates a cordial ??understanding?? with Adolf Hitler?? while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. <br> ?<br> For one boy growing up in Newark?? Lindbergh??s election is the first in a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small?? safe corner of America?and with it?? his mother?? his father?? and his older brother.<br><br></p></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>" are often suspect.  They are sometimes thinly veiled tales of the gospel according to the author?? taking on the claustrophobic air of a personal fantasia that can't be shared.  Such is not the case with Philip Roth's tour de force?? <I>The Plot Against America</I>.  It is a credible?? fully-realized picture of what could happen anywhere?? at any time?? if the right people and circumstances come together.<p>  <I>The Plot Against America</I> explores a wholly imagined thesis and sees it through to the end:  Charles A. Lindbergh defeats FDR for the Presidency in 1940.  Lindbergh?? the "agle??"captured the country's imagination by his solo Atlantic crossing in 1927 in the monoplane??  <I>Spirit of St. Louis</I>?? then had the country's sympathy upon the kidnapping and murder of his young son.  He was a true American hero: brave?? modest?? handsome?? a patriot.  According to some reliable sources?? he was also a rabid isolationist?? Nazi sympathizer?? and a crypto-fascist.  It is these latter attributes of Lindbergh that inform the novel.<p>  The story is framed in Roth's own family history: the family flat in Weequahic?? the neighbors?? his parents?? Bess and Herman?? his brother?? Sandy and seven-year-old Philip.  Jewishness is always the scrim through which Roth examines American contemporary culture.  His detractors say that he sees persecution everywhere?? that he is vigilant in "with the certainty of Jewish travail"; his less severe critics might cavil about his portrayal of Jewish mothers and his sexual obsession?? but generally give him good marks?? and his fans read every word he writes and heap honors upon him.  This novel will engage and satisfy every camp.<p>  "ar presides over these memories?? a perpetual fear. Of course?? no childhood is without its terrors?? yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews."his is the opening paragraph of the book?? which sets the stage and tone for all that follows.  Fear is palpable throughout; fear of things both real and imagined.  A central event of the novel is the relocation effort made through the Office of