Ebook: American empire--the center cannot hold
Author: Harry Turtledove
- Tags: North America, Fiction, Confederate States of America, Fiction, United States, Fiction, Imperialism, Fiction, FICTION, Political, Imperialism, North America, United States, United States, Confederate States of America
- Year: 2002
- Publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine Books
- City: Ne
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Language: English
- epub
It is 1924 -- a time of rebuilding, from the slow reconstruction of Washington's most honored monuments to the reclamation of devastated cities in Europe and Canada. In the United States, the Socialist Party, led by Hosea Blackford, battles Calvin Coolidge to hold on to the Powell House in Philadelphia. And it seems as if the Socialists can do no wrong, for the stock market soars and America enjoys prosperity Read more...
Abstract: It is 1924 -- a time of rebuilding, from the slow reconstruction of Washington's most honored monuments to the reclamation of devastated cities in Europe and Canada. In the United States, the Socialist Party, led by Hosea Blackford, battles Calvin Coolidge to hold on to the Powell House in Philadelphia. And it seems as if the Socialists can do no wrong, for the stock market soars and America enjoys prosperity unknown in a half century. But as old names like Custer and Roosevelt fade into history, a new generation faces new uncertainties