Impossible Histories annotations on Henry Wallace

p. 185
•What if the DNC chairman lost his gavel?: I thought I was so clever when I came up with the Wallace what-if, but it turns out that everyone else had already thought of it before me. Even in a non-counterfactual (i.e. factual) not-an-alternate-history context, Conrad Black wrote—this is in a “straight” biography of FDR—“Of all the hypotheses of American history, a Wallace presidency following the death in office of FDR is one of the more chilling ones.” [Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: C...