A brilliant and brilliantly entertaining tour de force of
American politics from one of journalism's most acclaimed
commentators.
History turns on a dime. A missed meeting, a different choice of
words, and the outcome changes dramatically. Nowhere is this truer
than in the field where Jeff Greenfield has spent most of his
working life, American politics, and in three dramatic narratives
based on memoirs, histories, oral histories, fresh reporting with
journalists and key participants, and Greenfield's own knowledge of
the principal players, he shows just how extraordinary those
changes would have been.
These things are true: In December 1960, a suicide bomber paused
fatefully when he saw the young president-elect's wife and daughter
come to the door to wave goodbye...In June 1968, RFK declared
victory in California, and then instead of talking to people in
another ballroom, as intended, was hustled off through the
kitchen...In October 1976, President Gerald Ford made a critical
gaffe in a debate against Jimmy Carter, turning the tide in an
election that had been rapidly narrowing.
But what if it had gone the other way? The scenarios that
Greenfield depicts are startlingly realistic, rich in detail,
shocking in their projections, but always deeply, remarkably
plausible. You will never think about recent American history in
the same way again.
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