====== A World of Laughter, A World of Tears ======

A timeline about Walter Elias Disney - yes, that Walter Elias Disney - winning the US presidential elections in the early 1950s. The premise sounds pretty harmless, but due to a combination of bad luck and the political inexperience of the new president, the United States and the world around them undergoes a very different 1950s and 1960s...

Written by [[offtopic:statichaos]]. Read it [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=113866|here]].

It's also featured on [[offtopic:Tv Tropes]], where it has [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWorldOfLaughterAWorldOfTears|its own little page]]. A [[http://alternatehistoryweeklyupdate.blogspot.com/2011/10/showcase-world-of-laughter-world-of.html|review]] of the timeline was featured on the [[offtopic:Alternate History Weekly Update]] blog. 

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