Jake Featherston

Jake Featherston
Southern Victory Series character
Featherston, center, at a Freedom Party rally in Richmond celebrating his election as President
First appearance	The Great War: American Front
Last appearance	Settling Accounts: In at the Death
Created by	Harry Turtledove
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Gender	Male
Occupation	Artillery sergeant, political activist, President of the Confederate States of America
Religion	Baptist, Atheist in later life
Nationality	Confederate

Jacob "Jake" Featherston is a fictional character in the Southern Victory Series novel series by Harry Turtledove. He is the fictional timeline's equivalent of Adolf Hitler.

Featherston appears as a major viewpoint character in the series, from The Great War: American Front to Settling Accounts: In at the Death, rising from his rank as an artillery sergeant in the Army of Northern Virginia to the office of President of the Confederate States of America.

Featherston is driven largely by revenge and hatred. The "fire in his belly," as he calls it, drives him even in the years of political failure and through his presidency (and apparently keeps him thin while other men of similar age have put on weight).

Featherston blames blacks, and the powerful families that control the country, largely via the Whig Party, for causing the Confederate States to lose the Great War. His rise in politics to the position of President of the Confederate States was spurred on by his dream of overthrowing the status quo, and solving race relations in the country once and for all. Featherston is so sure that blacks are a threat to the Confederacy that, even as the United States begins to win the war, he continues committing resources to the genocide against them.

Featherston's racism, unlike that of the German Nazis or Japanese militarists, is of a very unmystical kind. He does not seek to carry out a global genocide, but simply to "save" the Confederacy.