In the alternative timeline of the post-Cuban Missiles War the swinging sixties never happened.
‘The Great Society’ is the third verse of the American story of Armageddon. To its friends and enemies alike the United States seems to have emerged from the October War battered, bruised but invincible. However, thirteen months after the cataclysm gaping wounds remain unhealed and the nation of liberty is increasingly riven by conflict. The United States is a country desperately looking to re-find its way; to re-discover its sense of nationhood and purpose.
In Washington DC there had been an uprising; it is too soon to know if the attack on the Capital is a coup d’état, a popular uprising or simply a massive terroristic assault on the seat of American democracy and government.
What has happened to the American Dream; is the destiny of the land of the free still manifest?
What price unity when the war-ravaged states of the American North West and the Great Lakes already feel like the battlegrounds in the next war?
Across the West, incumbent Mayors and Governors are asking themselves how they will fend off the deafening clamour of ‘states rights’ movements; in DC the Federal government is struggling to unpick the chaos of a failed coup d’état. The search is on for the traitors who even now still threaten the Union and the recriminations are just beginning.
What price the Great Society?
Author’s note to readers: since the publication of ‘Operation Anadyr’ in October 2014, the Timeline 10/27/62 series has branched into and explored a number of additional narrative arcs and themes, and in several standalone stories.
For my readers who prefer to read the Timeline 10/27/62 books in the chronological order of the overall narrative arc THE GREAT SOCIETY = 9.
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