In 1974, facing impeachment in the House and trial in the Senate at the climax of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon solemnly told the nation from the Oval Office: “I shall see the Constitutional ...

An alternative history is a sub-genre of fiction, in which the author writes about what might have happened if key events in history had not occurred or if key figures had not affected those events.

In a year of unprecedented political and social upheaval, it is no surprise that alternative histories about totalitarianism have become the cultural go-to: 2017 saw a spike in book sales of Philip ...