American Empire: Blood and Iron
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| Author | Harry Turtledove |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | American Empire |
| Genre | Alternate history novel |
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July 31, 2001 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| Pages | 512 |
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| OCLC | 47647632 |
| 813/.54 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3570.U76 A8 2001 |
| Preceded by | The Great War: Breakthroughs |
| Followed by | American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold |
American Empire: Blood and Iron is the first book of the American Empire trilogy of alternate history fiction novels by Harry Turtledove. It is a sequel to the novel How Few Remain and the Great War trilogy, and is part of the Southern Victory Series.
Blood and Iron covers events directly following the closing events of The Great War: Breakthroughs. It takes the Southern Victory Series Earth from 1917 to 1924.
The victorious United States of America stand over the fallen Confederate States of America, victim to its own nationalist-ego and myth after three years of bloody trench warfare. In the CSA, a former soldier named Jake Featherston joins the fascistic Freedom Party and uses it as his platform for beginning to take over the Confederate government and exact revenge on both the USA and the groups he perceives as having "stabbed the CSA in the back": blacks, the Southern aristocracy, and the Whig Party. He soon takes over as leader of the Party and unleashes angry veterans on his enemies.
The USA's conservative government, meanwhile, and Democratic incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, who was running for a third term, lost the 1920 Presidential Election. Replacing Roosevelt and his Vice President Walter McKenna is the party of the masses: the Socialist ticket of President Upton Sinclair and Vice President Hosea Blackford (who marries Congresswoman Flora Hamburger). Ignoring the looming threat of the south, the Socialists focus on improving the lives of its citizenry — at the cost of trimming down its defenses and the military. Sinclair is inaugurated president of the United States on March 4, 1921 to much rejoicing from the Socialist party.
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