Title: World Police (circa 1865)
Product review: The concept of this trilogy was fun. It's a Civil War alternate history about a re-united United States at war with a bellicose Great Britain. Lots of fun in the first book, more of the same in the second. Some of the characters were very interesting, and it created a stage on which to explore some interesting political ideas. But unfortunately, by the third book, Stars & Stipes Triumphant, it has turned into a horrible imitation of contemporary politics, with the USA using its superior technical and industrial might to dictate to the world just what kind of democracy the world's nations need. Our kind! It doesn't mater to the first Republican president of the US that the nation he sets to invade (without first declaring war) is already a democracy. The only true democracy is a U.S. style democracy! Let the world tremble at American Might!
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