sentences:  Booth was governor of Texas City, America's third mega-city, and then in 2060 he was elected vice president, with President Harvisson.He became president during Harvisson's second term, and rigged the 2068 election to become president in his own right, murdering an aide who was about to implicate him.In 2070 he started a nuclear world war, which devastated the planet, and most of America outside its three mega-cities became an irradiated wasteland populated by mutants and bandits, the "Cursed Earth."