Charles Lindbergh wins the 1940 presidential election and America slides toward fascism. Roth published this alternate history in 2004; by 2016 it was being read as prophecy. The genius is in the domestic scale. This is not a geopolitical thriller. It is a Newark Jewish family watching their neighbors turn against them, slowly, politely.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.