Before the Decade Ends, Here Are the Best Novels of the 21st Century

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (2004)

In an alternate universe where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to pilot and isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh, a cordial “understanding” is negotiated with Adolf Hitler, and the new government enacts a program of unassuming antisemitism.

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