Naked Presidents: An Alternate History

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Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. More than a work of fiction, NAKED PRESIDENTS is a wild romp through an alternate universe, where conventional wisdom is overthrown and some of our most cherished myths are destroyed. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. 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 what is reality and what is fantasy after all.

Conservatives will find much of the plot twists pushing, if not puncturing the envelope of credibility (e. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy.

The alternate timeline is not greatly different than our own, but different enough that it makes you think. I find it a bit of a hard stretch on the career Air Force thing (not that he was cowardly, I just think he would have transitioned into the private sector/ political arena sooner). While the document was designated "for the President's eyes only," Allen would end up seeing more than he bargained for that day in 1981: a naked president. Both Republicans and Democrats would at least agree that our near-miss with nuclear annihilation in 1962 was The Event to define the character of any presidency. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.It’s premised on a reversal of historical fate, which allows him to show how differently historical reputations might have evolved for two men with similar problems. He dried his hands off and he said, ‘Oh, yeah, I'm working through that,’” Allen remembers, Reagan seemingly unfazed by the encounter. Perhaps stating the obvious, the plot itself goes a long way toward achieving that in this novel-as-thought-experiment, although the characters of JFK and Clinton ultimately remain two dimensional men; we get to see very little of their thoughts aside from their shared sexual obsession, and interestingly it is the two leading women in this saga, Judith Exner (in the JFK section) and Hillary Clinton, who become fully realized human beings. Silver clearly knows his history: the most important single episode that informs this narrative is not the JFK impeachment or the Clinton assassination but the Cuban Missile Crisis, which he details in his prologue.