The United States' Socialists also have no better notion about what to do with the blacks in North America, and ignore the plight of those in the Confederacy. Popular distrust in the Freedom Party and the newfound strength of Confederate paper money leads to support for the newly appointed Whig President Burton Mitchel. This contributes greatly to the revival of the CSA's currency, which had suffered from crippling inflation since the conclusion of the Great War. The assassination evokes rare sympathy from the United States, which ends the heavy burden of reparations payments placed on the CSA. This leads to a massive decline in Freedom Party membership as members, friends and allies desert it amidst such a high-profile embarrassment. In June 1922, President Hampton is assassinated by Freedom party member Grady Calkins three months into his term. Featherston loses by a narrow margin to Hampton, but resolves to fight on. Later in 1921, Jake Featherston runs for office against Wade Hampton V of the Whigs and Ainsworth Layne of the Radical Liberals. Sinclair is inaugurated president of the United States on Mato much rejoicing from the Socialist party.
Ignoring the looming threat of the south, the Socialists focus on improving the lives of its citizenry - at the cost of trimming down its defenses and the military.
Replacing Roosevelt and his Vice President Walter McKenna is the party of the masses: the Socialist ticket of President Upton Sinclair and Vice President Hosea Blackford (who marries Congresswoman Flora Hamburger). The USA's conservative government, meanwhile, and Democratic incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, who was running for a third term, lost the 1920 Presidential Election.
He soon takes over as leader of the Party and unleashes angry veterans on his enemies. In the CSA, a former soldier named Jake Featherston joins the fascistic Freedom Party and uses it as his platform for beginning to take over the Confederate government and exact revenge on both the USA and the groups he perceives as having "stabbed the CSA in the back": Black Southerners, the Southern aristocracy, and the Whig Party. After being beaten by the Confederate States of America in 1862 and in 1882, the United States has triumphed and avenged those humiliations which had so embittered it over the years. The Great War is over, with the United States of America and its ally the German Empire having emerged the victors. It takes the TL-191 Earth from 1917 to 1924. īlood and Iron covers events directly following the closing events of The Great War: Breakthroughs. It is a sequel to the novel How Few Remain and the Great War trilogy, and is part of the Southern Victory series. American Empire: Blood and Iron is the first book of the American Empire trilogy of alternate history fiction novels by Harry Turtledove.
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