Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford,Reagan Audiobook (Free)

A brilliant and brilliantly entertaining tour de force of American politics from one of journalism’s most acclaimed commentators.History turns on a dime. A missed conference, a different choice of terms, and the results changes significantly. Nowhere can be this truer than in the field where Jeff Greenfield offers spent the majority of his working existence, American politics, and in three dramatic narratives based on memoirs, histories, dental histories, fresh reporting with journalists and crucial participants, and about Then Everything Transformed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford,Reagan Greenfield’s own knowledge of the principal players, he displays just how outstanding those changes would have been.These exact things are accurate: In December 1960, a suicide bomber paused fatefully when he saw the young president-elect’s wife and daughter come to the entranceway to wave goodbye…In June 1968, RFK declared victory in California, and then instead of talking to people in another ballroom, as intended, was hustled off through your kitchen…In October 1976, President Gerald Ford made a critical gaffe within a issue against Jimmy Carter, turning the tide in an election that had been rapidly narrowing.But imagine if it had gone the other method? The scenarios that Greenfield depicts are startlingly realistic, rich in details, shocking in their projections, but usually deeply, remarkably plausible. You will never think about latest American history in the same way again.