The American Monarchy

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Though I have very little knowledge of politics pre-Great Depression, I do love butterflies, so I'm reading this.

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Great! I stopped readong it! Now I"ll have to go back, find where I was, etc.

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This needs an update RIGHT NOW.

YES, PLEASE !

I've been reading through this, and I'm already in the '40's! What'll happen when I hit 1957 and there's nothing left to read?

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I just finished this and it's amazing. Do go on. Please

How fast are you at reading?

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OK, how should we punish Lief if he fail to update this anytime soon?

I just sent Lief a PM asking him to update or instead to cede authority over the timeline to the What-If community, making it a collaborative timeline. I propose we give Lief two weeks (until September 18) to reply, and, if there is no reply, continue the timeline ourselves on the 19th.

He's probably been sent about a million pms by now since he started slowing down during the tl, at least two from me. I haven't gotten a response, and I assume several others haven't either. Given that, I'm just gonna guess that in two weeks' time, this'll be nationalized.

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Should this go into place, would it be better to appoint one "official" writer who can sum up all the ideas and weed out some of the horribly whacky? Or would that be too much centralization of power? Also, should it be done in this thread, or should this thread just link to another thread that continues from 1957-on. As a last note, we'd probably need access to lief's maps in order to properly write this.

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The last update was over 2 years ago: July 24th, '09.

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I just finished this and it's amazing. Do go on. Please

How fast are you at reading?

Very.

Figures. Weren't you also the guy who somehow was able to read through my monstrosity of a timeline "A Second Chance"?

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Just finished reading this! Such a disappointment to see it stop. I wanted to see what happened with George Wallace, Pat Buchanan, & Dick Nixon! If only if only...

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Praise be! Thank you God!

Really glad to see you considering updating, and hoping that you do update.

As for your point about Richard Nixon, I agree that it's unlikely for the exact same person to exist with such a POD. However, it is, IMO, better to use real people than just start making people up. For one, there are no photos of these fictional people, two, it takes away from the background of knowledge that readers already have of the person, and three, it takes away from the "coolness" aspect of having _________ be Prime Minister.

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Thank you Jesus! It's back! This can't even be expressed in words. ;D:D:D

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By the way, what are the Kennedys doing? It's hard to imagine Northern Catholics choosing between the Southern Protestant Party, the Northern Protestant Party, and the Western Protestant Party.

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Just finished reading this! Such a disappointment to see it stop. I wanted to see what happened with George Wallace, Pat Buchanan, & Dick Nixon! If only if only...

You're obsessed with Pat Buchanan

How so?

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Words can't express my joy of seeing this masterpiece updated!

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I'm currently re-reading this, and I saw something posted by TrueFederalist a while back mentioning the idea of an Adams dynasty, which in my opinion would have been awesome. Sadly, neither Adams nor Jefferson never made it to the Prime Ministership or whatever you call it in this timeline. Since working on a paper with the 1796 election and being in the middle of a biography on Adams, I've grown fond of involving the man in tls like this, so it's sad. Nevertheless, a very great tl as you already know. Whatever happened to the Adams'? Did the family in politics end after John Quincy, or did a couple of the later members go into the Senate? Also, how are ttl's early Prime Ministers and Founding Fathers regarded? Is Hamilton seen as a nation hero? Sort of a Jefferson maybe when you factor in his personal life? I'd like to get ordinary Americans', or at least ordinary political junkies' perspectives on the figures of America's formative years.

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With colors and party names so you know what's what.

1. Alexander Hamilton (Royalist-New York) 1791-1803
2. James Madison (Whig Republican-Virginia) 1803-1811
3. Aaron Burr (Whig-New York) 1811-1815
4. John Quincy Adams (Royalist-Massachusetts) 1815-1820
5. William H. Crawford (Royalist-Georgia) 1820
6. James Monroe (Whig Republican-Virginia) 1820-1825
7. Daniel D. Thompkinis (Whig Republican-New York) 1825-1826
8. Aaron Burr (Whig Republican-New York) 1826-1829
9. Henry Clay (National-Kentucky) 1829-1836
10. Andrew Jackson (Jacksonian-Tennessee) 1836-1842
11. Henry Clay (National-Kentucky) 1842-1850
12. Daniel Webster (National-Massachusetts) 1850-1851
13. James Knox Polk (Constitution-Tennessee) 1851-1855
14. Abraham Lincoln (Whig-Illinois) 1855-1866
15. Charles Winthrop (Whig-Massachusetts) 1866-1868
16. Clement Ballandingham (National-Ohio) 1868-1872
17. John C. Breckenridge (Constitution-Kentucky) 1872-1875
18. Jefferson Davis (Constitution-Mississippi) 1872-1879
19. Thomas F. Bayard (National-Delaware) 1879
20. John A. Bingham (Liberty-Ohio) 1881-1885
21. James A. Garfield (Liberty-Ohio) 1885-1889
22. Robert Todd Lincoln (Liberty-Illinois) 1889
23. Thomas E. Waston (Populist-Georgia) 1889-1898
24. Mark Hanna (Liberal-Ohio) 1898-1908
25. William McKinley (Liberal-Ohio) 1908
26. Elihu Root (Liberal-New York) 1908-1909
27. Thomas E. Watson (Populist-Georgia) 1909-1914
28. Robert La Follette (Populist-Wisconsin) 1914-1916
29. Theodore Roosevelt (Liberal-New York) 1916-1922
30. Nicholas Longworth (Liberal-Ohio) 1926-1934
31. Francisco Villa (Social Democratic Party-Hamilton) 1934-1942
32. Norman Thomas (Social Democratic Party-New York) 1942-1947
33. Arthur H. Vandenberg (Liberal-Michigan) 1947-1949
34. L. Fielding Wright (American Christian Union-Mississippi) 1949-1950
35. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Liberal-New York) 1950-1951
36. Henry Agard Wallace (Social Democratic Party-Iowa) 1951-1957
37. Richard M. Nixon (Liberal-California) 1957-?

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I'd like to narrow it down to specific dates if possible.

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This isn't gonna be easy, already, there's no specified date for Hamilton leaving office and Madison entering. Would it be possible, dear Lief, to explain what date a PM is typically elected and whatnot?