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001 2014034928
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008 141024s2015 nyu 000 1 eng
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050 00 $aPS3570.U76$bJ64 2015
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100 1 $aTurtledove, Harry.
245 10 $aJoe Steele /$cHarry Turtledove.
264 1 $aNew York :$bRoc,$c[2015]
300 $a438 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove's thought-provoking forays into the past have produced such intriguing "what-if" novels as Ruled Britannia, Days of Infamy, and Opening Atlantis. Now "the maven of alternate history" (The San Diego Union-Tribune) envisions the election of a United States President whose political power will redefine what the nation is-and what it means to be American... President Herbert Hoover has failed America. The Great Depression that rose from the ashes of the 1929 stock market crash still casts its dark shadow over the country. Despairing and desperate, the American people hope one of the potential Democratic candidates-New York governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and California congressman Joe Steele-can get the nation on the road to recovery. But fate snatches away one hope when a mansion fire claims the life of Roosevelt, leaving the Democratic party little choice but to nominate Steele, son of a Russian immigrant laborer who identifies more with the common man than with Washington D.C.'s wealthy power brokers. Achieving a landslide victory, President Joe Steele wastes no time pushing through Congress reforms that put citizens back to work. Anyone who gets in his way is getting in the way of America, and that includes the highest in the land. Joe Steele's critics may believe the government is gaining too much control, but they tend to find themselves in work camps if they make too much noise about it. And most people welcome strong leadership, full employment, and an absence of complaining from the newspapers-especially as Hitler and Trotsky begin the kind of posturing that seems sure to drag America into war. "--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aPresidents$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century$vFiction.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$y20th century$vFiction.
655 0 $aPolitical fiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Science Fiction / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Alternative History.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure.$2bisacsh
655 7 $aAlternative histories (Fiction)$2gsafd
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