“Every day I ask myself the same question: How can this be happening in America? How can people like these be in…
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Cast
Winona Ryder (Evelyn Finkel)Anthony Boyle (Alvin Levin)Zoe Kazan (Elizabeth 'Bess' Levin)Morgan Spector (Herman Levin)Michael Kostroff (Shepsie Tirchwell)David Krumholtz (Monty Levin)Azhy Robertson (Phillip Levin)Caleb Malis (Sandy Levin)Jacob Laval (Seldon Wishnow)John Turturro (Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf)Ben Cole (Charles Lindbergh)Kristen Sieh (Selma Wishnow)Steven Maier (Shushy Margulis)Billy Carter (Walter Winchell)Jarrett Winters Morley (Wounded Soldier)Caroline Kaplan (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)Eleanor Reissa (Mrs. Finkel)Philip Hoffman (Norman Peretsky)
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Creators
Ed Burns, Philip Roth, David Simon, Reena Rexrode
Synopsis
Characters live in an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt was defeated in the U.S. presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh.
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