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

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

    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 …