American Empire: The Victorious Opposition - Harry Turtledove
2003
493 pages
American Empire: Book Three
Harry Turtledove"s acclaimed alternate history series began with a single question: What if the South had
won the Civil War? Now, seventy years have passed since the first War Between the States. The North
American continent is locked in a battle of politics, economies, and moralities. In a world that has already
felt the soul-shattering blow of the Great War, North America is the powder keg that could ignite another
global conflict - complete with a new generation of killing machines.
"Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!" In 1934, the chant echoes across the Confederate States of America, a
country born of bloodshed and passion, stretching from Mexico to Virginia. But while people use the word
to greet each other in the streets, the meaning of "Freedom" has become increasingly unclear.
Jake Featherston, leader of the ruling Freedom Party, has won power - and is taking his country and the
world to the edge of an abyss. Charismatic, shrewd, and addicted to conflict, Featherston is whipping the
Confederate States into a frenzy of hatred. Blacks are being rounded up and sent to prison camps, and the
prosecution has just begun. Featherston has forced the United States to give up its toeholds in Florida and
Kentucky, and as the North stumbles through a succession of leaders, from Socialist Hosea Blackwood to
Herbert Hoover and now Al Smith, Featherston is feeling his might. With the U.S.A. locked in a bitter,
bloody occupation of Canada, facing an intractable rebellion in Utah, and fatigued from a war in the Pacific
against Japan, Featherson may pursue one dangerous proposition above all: that he can defeat the U.S.A.
in an all -out war.
The Victorious Opposition is a drama of leaders and followers, spies and traitors, lovers and soldiers. From
California to Canada, from combat on the high seas to the secret meetings where former slaves plot a desperate
strategy for survival, Harry Turtledove has created a human portrait of a world in upheaval. The third book
in his monumental American Empire series, The Victorious Opposition is a novel of ideas, action, and surprise -
and an unforgettable reimagining of history itself
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