![]() ![]() ![]() You wouldn’t have had somebody who was as ardently anti-Nazi from the get-go as Roosevelt was. If Garner had been president, you wouldn’t have got nearly as much of a New Deal. How do I know this other than his reputation precedes him Well, the writing style is clear and compelling. And Hearst was on this idea, “Let’s let the fascists do their own thing, and not bother them,” that America First policy. And if he’d been killed, John Nance Garner, vice president–elect, would have become president, and Garner owed his place on the ticket to being in William Randolph Hearst’s pocket. In real life Roosevelt was almost assassinated in February 1933-a very close thing, the guy standing next to him was killed. Dont Tell Me) and creator and executive producer David Simon discuss The Plot Against America, HBOs riveting adaptation of Philip Roths novel of the same. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle is actually much more plausible. ![]() So there were these powerful voices in real life pushing against Roosevelt’s interventionist policy-and Roosevelt still won the 1940 election by a landslide! Roosevelt basically faced that kind of campaign that Roth is imagining, and beat it by a lot. The Daily News, in New York City, was massively against it. Colonel McCormick, who had the Chicago Tribune and the radio station WGN, was opposed to intervention. There was the Hearst newspaper chain and the Associated newsreels-that’s media saturation there, already, for the idea. ![]() Meanwhile, in real life, there were very loud voices opposing aid to Britain, let alone actual U.S. ![]()
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