Naked Presidents: An Alternate History

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But again, the story was not improved by long drawn out descriptions of the characters' sexual activity. In this quirky, yet fascinating book, James Silver turns History inside out to show what might have happened. Other authors have made such an effort in nonfiction works, so Silver’s novel is a change of pace in that regard. It’s premised on a reversal of historical fate, which allows him to show how differently historical reputations might have evolved for two men with similar problems.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.While the document was designated "for the President's eyes only," Allen would end up seeing more than he bargained for that day in 1981: a naked president. I find it a bit of a hard stretch on the career Air Force thing (not that he was cowardly, I just think he would have transitioned into the private sector/ political arena sooner).

The evolution of this alternate timeline without the JFK assassination: Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-Contra, the Space Program, all are changed. 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. By contrast Bill Clinton’s presidency is cut short by his assassination on November 22, 1995, thus leaving him a martyred president with no extramarital dalliance in the White House to sully his historical reputation. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.Both Republicans and Democrats would at least agree that our near-miss with nuclear annihilation in 1962 was The Event to define the character of any presidency.

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. What if Kennedy was the President who was impeached because of a sex scandal, and what if Clinton was the one struck down after only a thousand days in the White House?The shocking surprise ending will leave the reader wondering just what is reality and what is fantasy after all. 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. Skip Allen was new to being a White House usher for President Ronald Reagan when it fell to him to deliver a top-secret document to the commander in chief in the private residence. 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.