![]() Dewey in 1944, Harold Stassen in 1948, and Robert Taft in 1952. Steele and Garner would also go on to defeat Wendell Willkie in 1940, Thomas E. In 1936, Steele and Garner are reelected in a landslide against Republican candidate Alf Landon and his running mate Frank Knox, who only carry eight electoral votes from Maine and Vermont. Additional political foes find similar charges leveled against them, including Senator Huey Long, who flees to his power base of Louisiana, but is assassinated regardless. Roosevelt's attempt to pack the United States Supreme Court to pass more of his New Deal laws is mirrored by Steele's arrest of four dissenting Supreme Court Justices ( Pierce Butler, James Clark McReynolds, George Sutherland and Willis Van Devanter) known as the " Supreme Court Four" on charges of aiding foreign world powers, and has them executed. Rather than Roosevelt's New Deal plan, Steele implements the Four-Year Plan, in lieu of Stalin's Five-Year Plan, which entails massive infrastructure projects, nationalizing the banks and the formation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, as in the actual timeline, but also the formation of prisoner work camps for the pseudo-enemies of the state, called wreckers. ![]() Steele would go on to defeat Republican incumbent Herbert Hoover in a landslide and become the 32nd President of the United States. With Roosevelt dead, the Democratic Party has little choice but to nominate Steele as their candidate for the 1932 Presidential election with John Nance Garner of Texas as his running mate, with whom Steele had reached an early arrangement. The Roosevelts are then buried in Hyde Park, New York following their deaths. His wife Eleanor and several members of the mansion staff are also killed in the fire. When the New York State Executive Mansion was set ablaze, Roosevelt is burned alive in the fire since he could not escape in time due to him being rendered immobile by polio. However, in light of Sullivan's "fairness" in his reporting, Steele personally met with Sullivan and promised that Sullivan would always have access to Steele's camp. However, Charlie Sullivan, by happenstance, overheard Scriabin on the phone giving the order for the arson. Steele's other assistants Lazar Kagan and Stas Mikoian were not privy to the initial planning. Realizing he might lose after another day of voting, Steele directed one of his aides Vince "The Hammer" Scriabin to have Roosevelt burned alive at the New York State Executive Mansion in Albany. However, after two days of votes, neither candidate has the needed two-thirds majority, although Roosevelt had a slight edge. The president is depicted as having the soul of a tyrant, with Stalin's real-world career mirrored by actions taken by Steele.ĭuring the 1932 Democratic Convention in Chicago, Illinois, the party had decided on two front runners: California Congressman Joe Steele, and incumbent Governor of New York Franklin D. It depicts Stalin (in this history, taking the name Joe Steele) growing up to be an American politician, rising to the presidency and retaining it by ruthless methods through the Great Depression, World War II, and the early Cold War. The novel explores what might have happened had Joseph Stalin been raised in the United States, postulating his parents having emigrated a few months before his birth, instead of remaining in the Russian Empire. Janis Ian was an editor of the original short story, and is the dedicatee of the resulting novel. The original concept comes from a line in Janis Ian's song "God and the FBI" which says " Stalin was a Democrat." In the foreword, Turtledove explains that from hearing this song, he began to imagine reasons for Stalin to be a Democrat, and the story grew from there. It is an expanded version of the author's 2003 short story of the same name. ![]() Joe Steele is an alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove, first published by Roc Books/ New American Library in hardcover and ebook form in April 2015.
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