The Plot Against America

by Philip Roth

By defeating Roosevelt and the anti-Nazi interventionists in Roosevelt’s party he had provided the German army with additional time to quell the continuing and unexpected resistance from the Soviet Union without Germany’s running the risk of having simultaneously to confront the industrial and military might of the United States. Even more important, Lindbergh’s presidency furnished German industry and the German scientific establishment—already secretly developing a bomb of unparalleled explosive force powered by atomic fission, as well as a rocket engine capable of conveying this weapon across the Atlantic—with a further two years in which to complete preparation for the apocalyptic struggle with the United States whose outcome, as envisioned