What ifs? of American history :  eminent historians imagine what might have been / 
new essays by Antony Beevor [and others] ; edited by Robert Cowley. 
 - New York :  G.P. Putnam's,  ©2003. 
 - xvi, 298 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Might the Mayflower not have sailed? /  William Pitt the Elder and the avoidance of the American revolution / Caleb Carr -- What the fog wrought : the Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776 /  "His accidency" John Tyler /  Lew Wallace and the ghosts of the Shunpike /  If the lost order hadn't been lost : Robert E. Lee humbles the union, 1862 /  The Northwest conspiracy /  Beyond the wildest dreams of John Wilkes Booth /  The revolution of 1877 /  The whale against the wolf : the Anglo-American War of 1896 /  No Pearl Harbor : FDR delays the war /  If Eisenhower had gone to Berlin /  Joe McCarthy's secret life /  If the U-2 hadn't flown /  The Cuban missile crisis : second holocaust /  JFK lives /  What if Watergate were still just an upscale address? /  Theodore K. Rabb --  David McCullough --  Tom Wicker --  Victor Davis Hanson --  James M. McPherson --  Thomas Fleming --  Jay Winik --  Cecelia Holland --  Andrew Roberts --  John Lukacs --  Antony Beevor --  Ted Morgan --  George Feifer --  Robert L. O'Connell --  Robert Dallek --  awrence Malkin and John F. Stacks. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0399150919 9780399150913 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003046911 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Imaginary histories.<br/>Imaginary histories.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--Miscellanea.<br/>United States--History, Military--Miscellanea.<br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Counterfactual histories.<br/>History.<br/>Military history.<br/>Trivia and miscellanea.<br/>Alternative histories (Fiction)<br/>Nonfiction.<br/>Counterfactual histories.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E179  / .W535 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973