You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. What if Kennedy had been the President impeached, and Clinton the one struck down after a thousand days in the White House? So, I walked into the bedroom, and the president's just coming out of his dressing room in his underwear,” Allen said.

First lady Nancy Reagan, who was already in bed, gave Allen permission to enter the room after knocking. In most respects, his speculation of a post-Dallas presidency is the more interesting of the two sections, particularly when postulating Frank Sinatra’s renewed friendship with the Kennedy family.

But again, the story was not improved by long drawn out descriptions of the characters' sexual activity.

The alternate timeline is not greatly different than our own, but different enough that it makes you think. It was refreshing to see a novel that didn't make a "Kennedy survives his assasination" plot into the second coming for America. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. 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. It is easy to nitpick Silver’s postulations, but they nonetheless offer an interesting commentary about the politics of the 1980s and 1990s.Conservatives will find much of the plot twists pushing, if not puncturing the envelope of credibility (e.

g., Clinton as an Army General) but those with an open mind and a sense of humor, and particularly historians, should find much to ponder (the way in which Ken Starr becomes a Supreme Court Justice is only one of many, many inventive twists).The shocking surprise ending will leave the reader wondering just what is reality and what is fantasy after all. Kennedy was not murdered in Dallas, that Bill Clinton’s life was different, Impeachment, the Bay of Pigs, and an unforeseen President of the United States.