11/22/63 theories, ultimately coming to the conclusion that Oswald acted alone. King met with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, an assistant to Lyndon B. Johnson and the author of books about several presidents, and used some of her ideas of worst-case political scenarios that might occur in the absence of Kennedy's assassination. The trade hardcover edition features a dust jacket that is a faux newspaper front page, with the front of the jacket featuring an article recounting the real historical event of Kennedy's assassination, and the back featuring an alternative history article speaking of the event as just a failed assassination "attempt"
Cultural depictions of Stephen, King of England screen. He was played by Frederick Treves in the 1978 BBC TV series "The Devil's Crown", which dramatised the reigns of Henry II, Richard I and John, and by Michael Grandage in "One Corpse Too Many," the first episode of the television adaptation of the "Cadfael" novels (1994). Stephen is portrayed in Ken Follett's #1 "New York Times" Bestseller "The Pillars of the Earth" (1990). He only appears a few times in the historical fiction novel, and is depicted as more of warrior than a king. The novel was re-released in 2010 and subsequently made into a mini-series, "The Pillars