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Article: `American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold,' by Harry Turtledove; Del Rey.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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Byline: Jeff Guinn
"Alternative history" fiction _ taking some real event and then imagining what might have happened had things turned out differently _ is a growing literary trend. Even former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is getting in on it _ this summer he'll publish a novel based on what might have happened had the battle of Gettysburg been won by the South.
Harry Turtledove is sort of the dean of alternative history novelists. "The Center Cannot Hold" is the third installment in his "American Empire" series. Its premise is that the South won the Civil War, only to have the coalition of American states ally with Germany to batter the ...