With The Deuce coming to an end, The Wire creator David Simon has found his next project and is set to reunite with HBO once again for an adaptation of Phillip Roth’s 2004 alternate history novel The Plot Against America.
The official Amazon description for the novel reads:
When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invades every Jewish household in America. Not only has Lindbergh publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the 33rd president of the United States, he negotiates a cordial ‘understanding’ with Adolf Hitler, guaranteeing peaceful relations between the two nations.
What then follows is the alternative America of this startling counterfactual novel by Philip Roth, who recounts what it was like for his Newark family during the menacingly anti-Semitic years of the Lindbergh presidency. Jewish families are shaken violently apart, whilst America is oblivious to its own dark metamorphosis.
HBO has granted a six-episode order to the TV adaptation, which Simon will write and executive produce with his frequent collaborator Ed Burns.
Originally published November 11, 2018. Updated November 10, 2018.
