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In 1983, Clint is approached by California Republicans to run in the GOP US Senate primary. Although Clint is slightly more liberal than Cali Republicans, he's asked to run because he has name recognition, and he can win over moderate Democrats. He defeats fellow Republican candidates Pete...

I found this book on the bargain table at the book store, and decided to give it a chance. It has Custer surviving Little Bighorn and becoming president in 1880. His presidency parallels Kennedy's Camelot in many ways. The book is fraught with grammatical errors, but is still a pretty good read...

I can see Lawton Chiles (The Florida governor before Jeb) running for president in the early 90s, maybe even dying in office (he died after the 1998 election in Florida). John Connley was Texan through and through, so he would have ran in the 70s or early 80s. Huey Long would have tried in the...

Yeah, but Cuomo was still a beloved Democratic figure, and people expected him to run for president as far back as 1984. He was a communicator on par with Reagan, and I think he could have drummed up the popular support across the country to win the nomination. I could see a petty, enraged...

That's funny. Seriously, though, I could see an emotionally unstable president killing himself on t.v. on the evening of September 11, 2001. Anyone a little unstable could have been suicidal after seeing what happened to their country and realizing that the weight of the world was really...

Definately a shocked Secret Service would lock down tighter on a presidential candidate and president. I don't think Lyndon Johnson had the willingness to compromise that was needed for a peaceful solution of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and probably no Test-Ban Treaty as a result of that. It's...

I'm completely straight, but I think I would have left her for another man too. That is one annoying woman.

For those of you who don't know the story of Michael Huffington, here's the short version: The son of a wealthy oilman was bored, and went to a Republican Congressional Candidate workshop being put on by the California Republican Party. After, he decided to run for Congress. He spent a record $5...

Well, I'll ignore that crack about the president(lol), because I do agree with you. Ryan definately didn't screw around with the terrorist who launched the Ebola attack on America, and he didn't waste time with the Chinese either. Too bad that there won't be more books about his presidency...

I was wondering if anyone here had ever worked on a timeline for Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan/John Clark books. don't come to the board as often as a lot of you seem to, so I may have missed a past thread like this. The books set up an interesting potential timeline(IE: nuclear explosion in Denver...

I'm almost finished reading 1901 by Robert Conroy. For those of you who don't know, the book involves the German invasion of Long Island in 1901 in an effort by the Kaiser to force the US to give Puerto Rico and a few other small islands won in the Spanish-American war to Germany. I was thinking...

Since Turtledove hasn't changed much of the timeline thus far, does anyone think that he would give us the ultimate switch and have the series end with the bad guys (IE Featherston and his Fascists) win the war? Just a thought I had.

Morrell is the tank General(ie. Patton) so I think someone gritty should play the old Morrell(like during the end of the American Empire series). Maybe Corbin Bernsen or maybe Tom Seizmore in that role rather than the role of Dowling. As far as characters during the time of the Great War,I...

Granted Nick Nolte as Custer would be funny to see, but I always thought Wilfred Brimley with bleach blonde hair extensios would make a good Custer.

The only reason I bring this up is because my girlfriend and I just read Victorious Opposition, and she said that Billy Bob Thorton(without his new rats-tail beard) would make a perfect Jake Featherston. What do you guys think?

Has anyone read 1901? The funny thing is I just heard about that book earlier on amazon(it was a recomendation). Is it any good? It sounds like a good book, but the reviews were terrible. Also, when was it published? I'm wondering if I can find a used copy somewhere

did you ever read the book "What If" ? It has a short essay by Stephen Ambrose talking about this. The point of his essay was that Americans would want to focus on the War in the Pacific more and abandon Europe. He also mentioned Dewey being elected over Roosevelt in 1944, which (even though...

Ok, I may be late to the party on this one, but I just saw the cover art for the new Harry Turtledove book dealing with the USA/CSA storyline. I know he can be a crappy alternate historian (ie: staying too closely tied to the timeline of real life), but I did enjoy his Great War /American Empire...