American Empire: The Victorious Opposition
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 Cover of Hodder & Stoughton 2003 paperback edition |
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| Author(s) | Harry Turtledove |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | American Empire |
| Genre(s) | Alternate history novel |
| Publication date | July 29, 2003 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| Pages | 512 |
| ISBN | 034544423X |
| OCLC Number | 51817182 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 21 |
| LC Classification | PS3570.U76 A84 2003 |
| Preceded by | American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold |
| Followed by | Settling Accounts: Return Engagement |
American Empire: The Victorious Opposition is the third and final book in the American Empire alternate history series by Harry Turtledove, and the seventh in the Southern Victory Series of books.
[edit] Plot summary
The book covers the period March 5, 1934 (the day after Jake Featherston's inauguration as President of the Confederate States) to June 22, 1941 (the commencement of Operation Blackbeard).
The United States is able to end a war with Japan, but is beginning to prepare for a fourth war against its southern neighbor. In the Confederacy, Featherston and his Freedom Party enact sweeping changes to all aspects of life, including purging and expanding the Army, abolishing the Supreme Court, and using camps to kill off Whig and Radical Liberal politicians before using them to eliminate the black population of the Confederate States.
As these changes are taking place, representatives of the former Confederate states of Kentucky and west Texas (Houston) begin calling for a return to their rightful nation. Though this is done, Featherston is still not satisfied, and wants more territory that the U.S. had taken in 1917 (Sequoyah, and parts of Sonora, Virginia, and Arkansas).
After his offer is refused by U.S. President Al Smith, Featherston issues the order to attack the United States in an effort to regain the Confederacy's lost lands, as part of his ultimate plan to defeat the U.S.
[edit] Literary significance and reception
Jackie Cassada in her review for Library Journal called it a "solid choice".[1] Peter Canon of Publishers Weekly said that this volume of Turtledove's saga "may be the strongest and most compelling since the opener".[2] Roland Green reviewing for Booklist agreed that this was the most powerful volume in the series describing the novel as "busy, to be sure, but almost impossible to praise too highly.[3]
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