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If Kennedy Lived : The First and Second Terms of President John F. Kennedy - An Alternate History by Jeff Greenfield (2014, Trade Paperback)

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Yet guessing can be fun, which is the second reason to engage in counter factualism. Historical fiction has a long lineage. Kennedy brings the Beatles to the executive mansion and declares, “Not since the British burned the White House in 1812 has a foreign invader conquered our land as swiftly and thoroughly as have John, Paul, George, and Ringo.”.

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What if Kennedy were not killed that fateful day? What would the 1964 campaign have looked like? Would changes have been made to the ticket? How would Kennedy, in his second term, have approached Vietnam, civil rights, the Cold War? With Hoover as an enemy, would his indiscreet private life finally have become public? Would his health issues have become so severe as to literally cripple his presidency? And what small turns of fate in the days and years before Dallas might have kept him from ever reaching the White House in the first place? The answers Greenfield provides and the scenarios he develops are startlingly realistic, rich in detail, shocking in their projections, but always deeply, remarkably plausible. If Kennedy Lived is a tour de force of American history from one of the country's most brilliant and illuminating political commentators.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0451471326
ISBN-13
9780451471321
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202534050

Product Key Features

Book Title
IF Kennedy Lived : the First and Second Terms of President John F. Kennedy-An Alternate History
Author
Jeff Greenfield
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, History & Theory, Presidents & Heads of State
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz

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Twelfth Grade
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Praise for If Kennedy Lived "It can be an enlightening exercise to challenge the belief that what happened had to happen. Usually it didn't. In his diverting If Kennedy Lived , Greenfield, the veteran political commentator, asks how things might have played out had John F. Kennedy survived in Dallas."- The New York Times Book Review "On the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination, this is the book to read. An intelligent, often haunting book about what America and the world would have looked like if John Kennedy had lived . . . It's a clever, moving book."-Fareed Zakaria "Greenfield grounds his fictional history in research and interviews with some of the era's experts and, as in his previous excursion into alternative history, offers an ending that the reader will not see coming . . . Kennedy-era followers will enjoy this book."- Library Journal "Greenfield does good service in demythologizing JFK to suggest that, had he indeed lived, his second term might have been marked by scandal and controversy, a Camelot undone by the president's own proclivities as much as by the events of the time. . . . Well researched and thought through-an interesting, plausible exercise in pop history."- Kirkus Reviews
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