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 new miniseries of the same name, which runs Mondays through April 20. Roth, who died in 2018 at 85, hewed close to his roots in writing about the Levin family in 1940s Newark, NJ.
He even called the couple’s younger son Philip. And so, when David Simon and Ed Burns adapted Roth’s book, they made sure the setting around the working-class, American-Jewish Levin family
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