This book is the last of my purchases from the latest Westport Library Book Sale.
I had seen and liked the HBO mini-series and decided to pick up the book.
The Plot Against America is an alternate history of the United States in the 1940s. Here, the aviator hero Charles Lindbergh defeated FDR and won the US Presidency in 1940, with the slogan, "Vote for Lindbergh or Vote for War." Lindbergh publicly blamed the Jews for pushing the country into war.
"We cannot blame them for looking out for what they believe to be their own interests, but we also must look out for ours. We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction."
Lindbergh later signed a treaty with Hitler that the US would not interfere with German expansion in Europe.
The book's narrator is seven-year-old Philip. He lives with his parents and brother in the Jewish Weequahic neighborhood in Newark. Philip says they were a happy family in 1940. Everything changed when the Republicans nominated Lindbergh.
I loved seeing how the political world impacted Philip's in his eyes. It was a great choice of narrator.
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