Posted on 02/10/04
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The Plot Against AmericaBy Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin, 391 pages, $36.95What would happen to a poor Jewish family in Newark if the Depression-era celebrity pilot Charles Lindbergh, a certified anti-Semite, became president of the United States in 1940 and, instead of rallying his country to war to defend Europe from fascism, as the incumbent Franklin Roosevelt proposed to do, chose to lead America straight into the clutches of Adolf Hitler?
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