How Philip Roth’s nightmare was recreated for ‘The Plot Against America’

Barbara Hoffman
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 18:29:21 -0400

Sixteen years before the current pandemic gripped us, writer Philip Roth envisioned a different kind of plague. In “The Plot Against America,” aviator and Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh wins the presidential election against Franklin Roosevelt, unleashing a flood of anti-Semitism that leaves families cowering in their homes. That 2004 novel is the inspiration for HBO’s...