A Different World: 1961
What if...instead of returning home from the war a celebrated hero, he had been killed in action? How would history and the present be different if he hadn't survived to become a world leader at a critical juncture in time?

A Different World: 1961 is the account of an alternative Cold War history witnessed through the eyes of Ryan Ferguson, a cynical newspaper reporter, as he reflects on the early careers of several of his college buddies, a Marine officer in the Caribbean, a Naval aviator and wanna-be astronaut, an Army officer in Europe, a State Department bureaucrat in Saigon, and a civil rights activist in Birmingham during this pivotal year in American history.

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A Different World: 1961
What if...instead of returning home from the war a celebrated hero, he had been killed in action? How would history and the present be different if he hadn't survived to become a world leader at a critical juncture in time?

A Different World: 1961 is the account of an alternative Cold War history witnessed through the eyes of Ryan Ferguson, a cynical newspaper reporter, as he reflects on the early careers of several of his college buddies, a Marine officer in the Caribbean, a Naval aviator and wanna-be astronaut, an Army officer in Europe, a State Department bureaucrat in Saigon, and a civil rights activist in Birmingham during this pivotal year in American history.

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A Different World: 1961

A Different World: 1961

by Jerome T Callahan Jr
A Different World: 1961

A Different World: 1961

by Jerome T Callahan Jr

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What if...instead of returning home from the war a celebrated hero, he had been killed in action? How would history and the present be different if he hadn't survived to become a world leader at a critical juncture in time?

A Different World: 1961 is the account of an alternative Cold War history witnessed through the eyes of Ryan Ferguson, a cynical newspaper reporter, as he reflects on the early careers of several of his college buddies, a Marine officer in the Caribbean, a Naval aviator and wanna-be astronaut, an Army officer in Europe, a State Department bureaucrat in Saigon, and a civil rights activist in Birmingham during this pivotal year in American history.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780595010622
Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date: 08/01/2000
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 6.06(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.86(d)
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