So Fio doesn't take a break from Congress to be President of New York's Alderman, and laser-guided butterflies a few years later in 1929 cause a Democrat to win the Presidency instead of Republican Herbert Hoover, allowing Governor of New York (1924-1932, having defeated fellow Progressive Al...
The problem by waiting until OTL FDR's time is that you'd have two old men in the office. With FDR'S health not great you'd think the Democrats would insist on someone a bit younger.
Well what are your assumptions about dieselpunk?
To me it sounds like the pre-atomic combustion engine age taken to it's logical extremes. So this means before the big vacuum tube computers and supersonic jets of the Atomic 50's. And by "punk" it also means being the dark and gritty opposite to...
What if the communists won all of Korea and in response the United States deployed nuclear missiles in Taiwan, leading to closer cooperation between Moscow and Beijing and thus preventing a Sino-Soviet split from ever occurring. Could this lead to Japan's constitutional Article 9 being amended...
What different sorts of ideologies might have developed in the colonies as a response to their treatment by the British (taxation to pay for the French-Indian war, the British monopoly inherent in being a colony, no representation in Parliament) other than the radical Republicanism that took...
I could use some help with a premise. I have the crazy notion to combine a wank of the Technical Alliance (the thinktank that invented the concept of technocracy and disbanded after releasing it's Energy Survey in the early 30's) with a presidency of Fiorello La Guardia.
My basic thoughts are...