Roc
April 2015
On Sale: April 7, 2015
Featuring: Herbert Hoover; Joe Steele
ISBN: 0451472187 EAN: 9780451472182 Kindle: B00KWG6074 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove’s
thought-provoking forays into the past have produced such
intriguing “what-if” novels as Ruled Britannia, Days of
Infamy, and Opening Atlantis. Now “the maven of alternate
history” (The San Diego Union-Tribune) envisions the
election of a United States President whose political power
will redefine what the nation is—and what it means to be
American….
President Herbert Hoover has failed America. The Great
Depression that rose from the ashes of the 1929 stock market
crash still casts its dark shadow over the country.
Despairing and desperate, the American people hope one of
the potential Democratic candidates—New York governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt and California congressman Joe
Steele—can get the nation on the road to recovery.
But fate snatches away one hope when a mansion fire claims
the life of Roosevelt, leaving the Democratic party little
choice but to nominate Steele, son of a Russian immigrant
laborer who identifies more with the common man than with
Washington D.C.’s wealthy power brokers.
Achieving a landslide victory, President Joe Steele wastes
no time pushing through Congress reforms that put citizens
back to work. Anyone who gets in his way is getting in the
way of America, and that includes the highest in the land.
Joe Steele’s critics may believe the government is gaining
too much control, but they tend to find themselves in work
camps if they make too much noise about it. And most people
welcome strong leadership, full employment, and an absence
of complaining from the newspapers—especially as Hitler and
Trotsky begin the kind of posturing that seems sure to drag
America into war.
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