Loren’s Comments (group member since Aug 22, 2010)

Loren’s comments from the Alternate History group.

Dave wrote: "Loren wrote: "Guns of the South and How few Remain are the best to start. I do agree with The Two Georges and with Ruled Britania, two of my favorite independent ones he did along with 'in the pres..."

Have to admit his latest books (Atlantis series, while creative, the Pearl Harbor series and now this war that came early series) while interesting ideas have definitely fallen flat. Not sure why. Doesn't take away from his very impressive past works, nor should it spook you away from them. The CSA series is one of the best I've ever red. The stand alone novels were very enjoyable as was the Worldwar series. Just because he's fallen somewhat flat doesn't take away the genius of his past work

It only mentions Hannibal's victory as part of a larger story taking place in the 1800s but Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes shows how it would lead to a world where Europe is more of a backwater and a Africa/Middle East take the lead, especially after Islam's founding

I know there's alot of books about Nazi Germany winning and the Turtledove Series following the US/CS had the US/Germany winning World War I setting the stage for a Nazi-CSA, but does anyone know of any books where germany wins world war I? And does anyone know or have a thought about how the world would look in that universe?

Guns of the South and How few Remain are the best to start. I do agree with The Two Georges and with Ruled Britania, two of my favorite independent ones he did along with 'in the presence of mine enemies'.

I red the current Hitler's war books but I find it to be his absolute worse series ever. Just poorly written and thought out

While I agree about the University of Virginia, I do not think that an Adams Presidency would have looked at Napoleon's offer of all of Louisiana and turned it down. Perhaps I'm just a bigger Adams fan then a Jefferson fan but I do believe that Adams probably would have served another term without too much difference.

What might have been different in that timeline is:
1) With a two term federalist president, what would happen to the Virginia Dynasty (Madison-Monroe) that led to Andrew Jackson?
2) I don't think the War would have been changed, Jefferson was a horrible governor and played no role in the eventual Southern Strategy.
But what would have happened to French-American relations in the early history? Adams was an Angliophile and really distrusted the French, especially with their descent into madness
3)Would the War of 1812/Barbary Pirates incidents eventually have gone differently because of Adams' actions as President? Jefferson had begun the navy that would be used so effectively by Adams to deal with the Tripoli pirates but then Jefferson cut back the navy and army. Would a better equipped army/navy from Adams have led to better result for us?
and I guess one more
4) Would John Quincy Adams have become president?