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Alt-history thriller ‘The Plot Against America’ is eerily familiar

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TV viewers thinking “alt history” and “Nazis” will likely conjure up “The Man in the High Castle,” Amazon’s recently concluded four-season series based on Philip K.

Dick’s novel about a world in which Germany and Japan won World War II and conquered most of America. Now we have the alt history series based on a novel written by another Philip — Roth, in this case.

But HBO’s “The Plot Against America,” based on Roth’s 2004 tale about an America in which hero aviator (and Nazi sympathizer) Charles Lindbergh defeats Franklin D.

Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election and leads America down the road to fascism, isn’t nearly as boring as “The Man in the High Castle.” While it takes a while to get going — in that too-much

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