I love what if this had happened instead of that. That is part of what appealed to me about 11/22/63.Reading the American Front. Takes place in a world where the South won the Civil War. Result became two american states. It is now 1914 and the confederates have allies in France and Britain while the United states are allied with Germany. Teddy Roosevelt are president of the United states while Woodrow Wilson is the same for the confederates. WWI is really a World war with an important front stretching across America.