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In the history we know, Barack Obama stunned the world with his meteoric rise to power, short-circuiting a Democratic Party establishment which had seemingly predetermined Hillary Clinton as its next candidate. Not only was the charismatic Obama the United States’ first black president, but at time of writing he is also the only president to have been born in any decade later than the 1940s.

But what if Obama’s political career had been more like that of Joe Biden? What if his early presidential ambitions had been frustrated, only for him to finally enter the White House in old age after a long Senate career?

In “The Tenacity of Hope”, Tom Anderson explores a world subtly different from our own. Without Obama’s example inspiring young and diverse Americans to enter politics, without his drive to reform healthcare and the Republican reaction against him across many formerly ‘blue’ states, how would America and the world have developed differently? From the 2010s Project Constellation moon landing to 2030s Hallmark Christmas movies in 3D virtual reality, enter a world without ‘change we can believe in’…