@article{435736,
      recid = {435736},
      author = {Turtledove, Harry.},
      title = {American empire : the center cannot hold /},
      publisher = {Del Rey/Ballantine,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {619 p. :},
      year = {2003},
      note = {Originally published in 2002.},
      abstract = {The year is 1924. In the United States, the Socialist  Party, led by Hosea Blackford, battles Calvin Coolidge to  hold on to the Powell House in Philadelphia. The  Confederate States, victorious in the War of Secession but  at last tasting defeat in the Great War, suffer poverty and  natural calamity. The Freedom Party promises new strength  and pride, but if its chief siezes the reins of power, he  may prove a dangerous enemy for the hated U.S.A. By the  time the 1920s come to a close, catastrophe will cast a  poll across the continent -- and in a world of shimmering  hatreds, shattered lives, and pent-up violence, the center  cannot hold. And for a powerful nation, the ultimate shock  is yet to come....},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/435736},
}