Not surprising, though. I pretty much knew HOW it was going to end, just not the way it was going to end.

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I found it interesting that King portrayed JFK (the version that lived) as too progressive for his time (or too much of a pushover, depending on your perspective) - that the country pushed back hard in the other direction and almost elected Goldwater and DID elect some very evil bastards for President later. Of course, that chain of elections really put the country down a dark road.

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He gets some small details wrong in ways that surprise me. I'll leave a spoiler space, even though I don't really think these are spoilers.


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I rode public buses in Utica, NY, in the mid-1950's. I'm almost certain people did not smoke on them then. I rode public buses in Tucson, AZ in the mid 1960's. Same lack of smoking.

In the 1960's bars did NOT have TVs in them.

I did find is outcome from saving JFK to be quite interesting, although quite apocalypticly dark. As he was so determined that the world would be a much better place if the assassination had not happened, I also knew that it was LBJ who got the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed, and it's commonly accepted that JFK would not have been able to accomplish that. King does cover himself by having the narrator thirty years younger than King himself (I'm a year younger than King)and says any number of times that he was an English major, not a history major.

I am likewise a sucker for time travel stories.

Have your read "Time on My Hands" by Peter Delacorte? It's about a man who goes back to try to keep Reagan from becoming President. Excellent.