What if...? The new novel by Philip Roth begins with a bold premise: Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator, friend of fascists and anti-Semite, scores a landslide victory over Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election. Fear and terror spread among American Jews - including the Roth family in Newark. "Anyone who reads this book will better understand: no, will sensually and vividly feel what it means that the history, which always appears as the necessary in hindsight, comes as the unforeseen when it occurs." Ulrich Raulff (Süddeutsche Zeitung).