- Hardcover: 512 pages
- Publisher: Del Rey; First Edition edition (Jun 25 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0345444213
- ISBN-13: 978-0345444219
- Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.9 x 4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 830 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,897,996 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
At its best, alternate history holds a mirror to our society, allowing us to understand our own past by examining hypothetical responses to similar but altered conditions in real or imagined worlds. In the latest installment of his retelling of the world wars, American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold, Harry Turtledove demonstrates convincingly how a native fascist ideology could spring up in a defeated Confederacy, as well as how economic conditions can develop independent of government policies.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
As Jake Featherston campaigns his way across the Confederate States of America (CSA) in the name of his militant Freedom Party, other forces in the world are preparing to move against the CSA's northern neighbor, the hated United States. Set in a North American continent divided into two American nations and an occupied Canada, the sequel to American Empire: Blood & Iron continues an American history that might have happened. Turtledove never tires of exploring the paths not taken, bringing to his storytelling a prodigious knowledge of his subject and a profound understanding of human sensibilities and motivations. For most libraries. [For more alternative history, see Worlds That Weren't, a collection of novellas by Turtledove and others, reviewed on p. 127. - Ed.]
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A great read,
By Laurence Wener (Calgary, Alberta) - See all my reviews
This review is from: American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold (Mass Market Paperback)
A good book. One in a series of alternate history. This book follows the US after the great war in 1914 in which the US And Germany defeated the Confederate States and Great Britain. Canada is subjugated by the US and Quebec is a Republic. It follows personalites in the US, Confederate States, Canada and Quebec in the years from 1922 to the 1930's. It it very entaining and many points of view of what we think of as our history. This whole series is very good. I'm reading all of them.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty soild,
By Zach Cook (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews
This review is from: American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold (Mass Market Paperback)
I liked "The Center Cannot Hold", a bit better than "Blood and Iron", actually. The book was much faster paced, and the lack of war did not take away from it. I personally think that Turtledove could have went into more detail about the conflict with Japan and especally the bombing of LA when President Blackford was there. I enjoyed the characters, especally Chester Martin, and liked the path that Turtledove took Flora and Hosea down. I have begun "The Victorious Opposition", and can't wait for the World War 2 series to begin!
3.0 out of 5 stars
Turtledove's Alternative American History Continues,
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This review is from: American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold (Mass Market Paperback)
With "American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold" Harry Turtledove provides yet another installment in his ongoing alternative history look at the 20th Century history of North America. Here he shows us an alternative version of the Great Depression, triggered by defaulting loans made by Austria-Hungary to Russia. Meanwhile the Confederate States of America's fascist Freedom Party quickly rises to power, under the charismatic leadership of Jake Featherston, Turtledove's American version of Adolf Hitler. This installment covers the period from 1924-1933, chronicling increasing tensions between the United States of America and its former ally, the German Empire, and the new threat posed by the Empire of Japan. I have found this series quite engrossing, even if it is plagued with one-dimensional characters and banal prose (For a more lyrical, thoughtful, and better written alternate history novel, I would recommend instead Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Years of Rice and Salt".). Still, inspite of its major flaws, I can recommend "American History: The Center Cannot Hold" to fans of Harry Turtledove and others interested in alternative history science fiction.
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