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The Plot Against America — 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 family in Newark watches democracy erode as anti-Semitism rises.
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. The America First movement he endorsed drew on real anti-Semitic currents in 1940s American society. The 2020 HBO series draws pointed parallels to contemporary politics.