Charles Lindbergh was a pilot and inventor who became internationally famous in 1927 as the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Later, he became an outspoken opponent of American involvement in World War II and was rumored to support the Nazis. He also considered running for the presidency. In Philip Roth’s alternative history novel The Plot Against America, Lindbergh wins the presidency by conspiring with the Nazis and becomes an antisemitic authoritarian dictator.
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Chapter 2: Gatekeeping in America
...Roth’s novel The Plot Against America, the media-savvy aviator, political outsider, and Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh gets elected president in the 1930s, causing widespread violence around the country. Many people have...
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...In fact, Philip Roth had a point in The Plot Against America: in the 1930s, Lindbergh was extremely popular and planning a presidential run. But Republican Party gatekeepers made sure that...
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