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What ifs? of American history : eminent historians imagine what might have been / new essays by Antony Beevor [and others] ; edited by Robert Cowley.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : G.P. Putnam's, ©2003.Description: xvi, 298 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0399150919
  • 9780399150913
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 973 21
LOC classification:
  • E179 .W535 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
Might the Mayflower not have sailed? / Theodore K. Rabb -- William Pitt the Elder and the avoidance of the American revolution / Caleb Carr -- What the fog wrought : the Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776 / David McCullough -- "His accidency" John Tyler / Tom Wicker -- Lew Wallace and the ghosts of the Shunpike / Victor Davis Hanson -- If the lost order hadn't been lost : Robert E. Lee humbles the union, 1862 / James M. McPherson -- The Northwest conspiracy / Thomas Fleming -- Beyond the wildest dreams of John Wilkes Booth / Jay Winik -- The revolution of 1877 / Cecelia Holland -- The whale against the wolf : the Anglo-American War of 1896 / Andrew Roberts -- No Pearl Harbor : FDR delays the war / John Lukacs -- If Eisenhower had gone to Berlin / Antony Beevor -- Joe McCarthy's secret life / Ted Morgan -- If the U-2 hadn't flown / George Feifer -- The Cuban missile crisis : second holocaust / Robert L. O'Connell -- JFK lives / Robert Dallek -- What if Watergate were still just an upscale address? / awrence Malkin and John F. Stacks.
Summary: A collection of essays on pivotal moments in American history includes Caleb Carr on America had there been no Revolution, and Robert Dallek on what might have happened if JFK had not been assassinated.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Might the Mayflower not have sailed? / Theodore K. Rabb -- William Pitt the Elder and the avoidance of the American revolution / Caleb Carr -- What the fog wrought : the Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776 / David McCullough -- "His accidency" John Tyler / Tom Wicker -- Lew Wallace and the ghosts of the Shunpike / Victor Davis Hanson -- If the lost order hadn't been lost : Robert E. Lee humbles the union, 1862 / James M. McPherson -- The Northwest conspiracy / Thomas Fleming -- Beyond the wildest dreams of John Wilkes Booth / Jay Winik -- The revolution of 1877 / Cecelia Holland -- The whale against the wolf : the Anglo-American War of 1896 / Andrew Roberts -- No Pearl Harbor : FDR delays the war / John Lukacs -- If Eisenhower had gone to Berlin / Antony Beevor -- Joe McCarthy's secret life / Ted Morgan -- If the U-2 hadn't flown / George Feifer -- The Cuban missile crisis : second holocaust / Robert L. O'Connell -- JFK lives / Robert Dallek -- What if Watergate were still just an upscale address? / awrence Malkin and John F. Stacks.

A collection of essays on pivotal moments in American history includes Caleb Carr on America had there been no Revolution, and Robert Dallek on what might have happened if JFK had not been assassinated.

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