When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selshly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but upon taking ofce as the thirty-third president of the United States, he negotiated a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, whose conquest of Europe and virulent anti-Semitic policies he appeared to accept without difculty. What then followed in America is the historical setting for this startling new book by Pulitzer Prizewinner Philip Roth, who recounts what it was like for his Newark family and for a million such families all over the country during the menacing years of the Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews had every reason to expect the worst.

菲利普·罗斯（1933-2018）

1997年，菲利普·罗斯凭借《美国牧歌》摘得普利策文学奖。1998年，罗斯在白宫受颁美国国家艺术勋章。2002年，他又获得美国艺术文学院颁发的最高荣誉——虚构类作品金奖，该奖的往届获奖者有约翰·多斯·帕索斯、威廉·福克纳、索尔·贝娄等著名作家。罗斯于1960年、1996年分别凭借处女作《再见，哥伦布》和《萨巴斯的剧院》两度将美国国家图书奖揽入囊中。此外，他还获得美国书评人协会奖两次，笔会/福克纳奖三次。罗斯的《反美阴谋》被誉为“2003-2004年度以美国为主题的优秀历史小说”，于2005年荣获美国历史学家协会奖和W.H.史密斯文学奖年度最佳图书。罗斯也因此成为W.H.史密斯文学奖设立四十六年以来首位两度获奖的作家。