Naked Presidents: An Alternate History

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By contrast, his allohistorical path with Clinton is more tortured, as Silver makes him a general in the 1980s so that he can stop the Iran-Contra affair (which, as he points out in an insightful aside, would have been perceived as more scandalous without Watergate to compare it to) before entering electoral politics. Silver clearly knows his history: the most important single episode that informs this narrative is not the JFK impeachment or the Clinton assassination but the Cuban Missile Crisis, which he details in his prologue. The evolution of this alternate timeline without the JFK assassination: Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-Contra, the Space Program, all are changed. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. To me this is why Frank Sinatra is in many ways the book’s best-developed figure, as by taking him on a very different historical path Silver spends the time to explore his motivations.

In this quirky, yet fascinating book, James Silver turns History inside out to show what might have happened.They were a little on the indecisive side as to what they wanted and how they wanted it, and they had to switch around a couple of times before they got things the way they liked it,” Allen said.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Because of this, his book ends up being more an artifact of the Clinton years than an enduring work of alternate history that is valuable in its own right.The alternate timeline is not greatly different than our own, but different enough that it makes you think.