It is easy to nitpick Silver’s postulations, but they nonetheless offer an interesting commentary about the politics of the 1980s and 1990s.

The Vietnam era generation (of which I am not) and those longing for the success of the 90's will appreciate the intertwining of worlds both invented, inverted, and completely true--as JFK survives Dallas, Clinton is a whistle blower, Sinatra lives the latter part of his life sans tongue--while sex permeates the novel just enough to make it as slick as the real and reinvented presidents who play the lead roles.

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Allen declined to provide any details on any tensions in the Clinton's private quarters during the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. In this quirky, yet fascinating book, James Silver turns History inside out to show what might have happened.The alternate timeline is not greatly different than our own, but different enough that it makes you think.

To me this is why Frank Sinatra is in many ways the book’s best-developed figure, as by taking him on a very different historical path Silver spends the time to explore his motivations.

In most respects, his speculation of a post-Dallas presidency is the more interesting of the two sections, particularly when postulating Frank Sinatra’s renewed friendship with the Kennedy family.