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 Turtledoveโs thought-provoking forays into the past have produced such intriguing โwhat-ifโ novels as Ruled Britannia, Days of Infamy, and Opening Atlantis. Now โthe maven of alternate historyโ (The San Diego Union-Tribune) envisions the election of a United States President whose political power will redefine what the nation isโand what it means to be Americanโฆ.
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 candidatesโNew York governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and California congressman Joe Steeleโcan 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.โs 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 Steeleโs 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 newspapersโespecially as Hitler and Trotsky begin the kind of posturing that seems sure to drag America into war.
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