The Plot Against America: Sky Atlantic series shows a parallel history that has echoes of today's world
The world is in chaos and fascism is on the march. But enough about 2020 – what about America in 1940? That’s the time period to which we travel for Wire creator David Simon’s new series. Adapted from Philip Roth’s 2004 novel, (Sky Atlantic) imagines a parallel history in which dashing airman and real-life Hitler fanboy Charles Lindbergh is elected American President.
Lindbergh was a protectionist and a xenophobe whose politics could be summed up as “Make America Great Again” (he was a vocal supporter of the isolationist American First Committee). So the present-day resonances of the Plot Against America require little elaboration.
