Then everything changed : stunning alternate histories of American politics : JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan
(2011)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
973.92/GREENFIELD,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 973.92/GREENFIELD,J Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2011]
©2011
DESCRIPTION

xiv, 434 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780399157066 (hbk.), 0399157069 (hbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Published simultaneously in Canada"--T.p. verso

Palm Beach, Florida : December 11, 1960, 9:45 a.m. -- Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California : June 4, 1968, 11:45 p.m. -- Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California : October 6, 1976, 7:00 p.m

Veteran CBS News reporter and commentator Greenfield speculates what would have happened if an actual failed attempt to assassinate JFK before his inauguration instead succeeded; Robert Kennedy isn't assassinated, beats Nixon in 1968, winds down the Vietnam War, and with no Watergate scandal, the cultural changes of the 1970s are averted; and, Ford wins re-election, but in 1980 it's Hart vs. Reagan, and Hart wins