Those "books" were revealed to be an April Fool's Day prank perpetuated by IGN. They tend to do stuff like that.Seems that the next parts has been anounced: Cold War decolonisation(ooc: post ww2 up to the cubacrisis), Cold War Bear and the falcon(ooc: from the cuba crisis to Reagan elected), Cold War moviestars(ooc: 80s):
And then American world; Nothing comes without a prize(ooc: 90s)
American world; Walker, Texas Ranger(ooc: The Bush years, well he was from texas and i think W stands for Walker)
ooc: Can we discuss these years now, please
DBWI: The Turtledove TL-191 Discussion Thread.
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ooc: No, I was saying that Joe Kennedy, Jr. was president in the TL-191 world, and his death in Turtledove's books (a death that happened OTL) was a reference to OTL Turtledove killing off Jimmy Carter. Harris's book, which I've never read, had nothing to do with my comment.ooc: The Kennedy that died wasnt president, it was his father, in Fatherland
OOC: Yes ...Seems that the next parts has been anounced: Cold War decolonisation(ooc: post ww2 up to the cubacrisis), Cold War Bear and the falcon(ooc: from the cuba crisis to Reagan elected), Cold War moviestars(ooc: 80s):
And then American world; Nothing comes without a prize(ooc: 90s)
American world; Walker, Texas Ranger(ooc: The Bush years, well he was from texas and i think W stands for Walker)
ooc: Can we discuss these years now, please
Along with The Third Book, in The American World Series ...
American World: Dial O for Obama, All about The United States' LOVE Affair with its First Black President!
Sean Mulligan
Banned
Yeah ...
The First Post-Civil War Presidents to be Unabashedly from The South, Were a Pair of TEXANS of All Things ...
Obviously an Homage to The Reformed Texas Republic, That was Declared at The Close of The Second Great War!
Not counting Johnson the second president from the South was a Georgian.
I dont like it how he makes that New Englander sport baseball the premier sport of America instead of the much better football.
Actually, Not Counting Johnson ...
The First President from The South was The Virginian, Woodrow Wilson!
As for The Rest ...
Are you Forgetting that Irascible Texas Duo of Ike and LBJ?
Sean Mulligan
Banned
Eisenhower was from Kansas. And I meant unabashadly from the South and therefore Wilson doesn't count. I just meant that the previous poster forgot the Georgian when he mentioned the first two presidents being unabashadly fromt he South being Texans. I should have been more clear.
Right on both counts. He also owned the Texas Rangers baseball team, which arguably makes him a Texas Ranger
More to the point, if the Mexican Army's general staff could figure all of this out (and they supposedly did an analysis at the request of President Carranza) why couldn't the war planners of Imperial Germany, by any measure the best in the world at the time? They had to know Mexico would smell this one for the rotten deal it was.
OOC: Yes ...
Along with The Third Book, in The American World Series ...
American World: Dial O for Obama, All about The United States' LOVE Affair with its First Black President!
What are any of you talking about? The books mention only two Southerners as president - Andrew Johnson (barely) and Woodrow Wilson (in European Front).Right on both counts. He also owned the Texas Rangers baseball team, which arguably makes him a Texas Ranger
Back on topic, we should have to give Turtledove credit. Without him, no one would care about Worlds of If. Case in point, anybody here remember Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle?" You know, the book where Featherston wins the Second Great War and takes place in British occupied New York? No, I thought not.
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You REALLY Should Read American World: Dial O for Obama ...
Not Only does it Have a Very Compelling Protagonist who is a Descendant of Slave-Owners, But he himself Also has a Kenyan Father ...
Furthermore, Two of The US Presidents Mentioned in The Cold War Series are Texas Born, Although Ike Still does Wind up Spending his Formative Years in Kansas!
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ooc: I've already stated that those books were an April Fool's Day joke by IGN.com (which they have a habit of doing). Turtledove has explicitly stated the 191verse won't be continued, so it stands to reason that his alternate self won't continue the series past the 1940s either.
We now return you to our regularly scheduled program.
IC: Sorry, I rarely read fanfiction.
Moving Right Along ...
What does Everyone ELSE Think ...
About The Proposed Continuation?