3 real historical locations · United States
Philip Roth's alternate history — in which Charles Lindbergh defeats FDR in 1940 and steers America toward isolationism — adapted as an HBO miniseries. A story about a Jewish family in New Jersey whose ordinary life is slowly poisoned by fascism creeping into their country.
CinemaMapped has mapped 3 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning United States.
Philip Roth's alternate history: aviator hero Charles Lindbergh wins the 1940 US presidential election on an isolationist platform — and an ordinary Jewish f...
The series is set in an alternate 1940-42 where isolationism prevails and America never enters WWII. Charles Lindbergh was a real isolationist spokesman who received the Order of the German Eagle from Göring in 1938. ...
View location →In the alt-history America of Philip Roth's novel, President Charles Lindbergh governs from Washington while pursuing a policy of antisemitic persecution — t...
Charles Lindbergh was a genuine pre-war antisemite and isolationist who said Jews were 'pressing this country toward war'. Roth's novel asks: what if the most capable American Nazi had won the 1940 election?
View location →The Lindbergh government's 'Just Folks' programme relocates urban Jewish children to rural American communities for the summer — a domestication scheme the L...
Roth modelled 'Just Folks' on real New Deal rural programmes but gave it a sinister integrationist purpose. The series uses specific mid-century American anxiety to ask how fascism could arrive in a democracy.
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