What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

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Overview

Did Eisenhower avoid a showdown with Stalin by not taking Berlin before the Soviets? What might have happened if JFK hadn't been assassinated? This new volume in the widely praised series presents fascinating "what if..." scenarios by such prominent historians as: Robert Dallek, Caleb Carr, Antony Beevor, John Lukacs, Jay Winick, Thomas Fleming, Tom Wicker, Theodore Rabb, Victor David Hansen, Cecelia Holland, Andrew Roberts, Ted Morgan, George Feifer, Robert L. O'Connell, Lawrence Malkin, and John F. Stacks.

Included are two essential bonus essays reprinted from the original New York Times bestseller What If?-David McCullough imagines Washington's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Long Island, and James McPherson envisions Lee's successful invasion of the North in 1862.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101204702
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 09/07/2004
Series: What If Essays
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 869 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Robert Cowley is the founding editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, which was nominated for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Cowley has held several senior positions in book and magazine publishing.

Table of Contents

What Ifs?™ of American HistoryList of Maps and Illustrations
Introduction by RObert Cowley

Theodore K. Rabb
Might the Mayflower Not Have Sailed?

Caleb Carr
William Pitt the Elder and the Avoidance of the American Revolution

David McCullough
What the Fog Wrought: The Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776

Tom Wicker
His Accidency, John Tyler

Victor Davis Hanson
Lew Wallace and the Ghosts of the Shunpike

James M. McPherson
If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost: Robert E. Lee Humbles the Union, 1862

Thomas Fleming
The Northwest Conspiracy

Jay Winick
Beyond the Wildest Dreams of John Wilkes Booth

Cecelia Holland
The Revolution 1877

Andrew Roberts
The Whale Against the Wolf: THe Anglo-American War of 1896

John Lukacs
No Pearl Harbor?: FDR Delays the War

Antony Beevor
If Eisenhower Had Gone to Berlin

Ted Morgan
Joe McCarthy's Secret Life

George Feifer
If the U-2 Hadn't Flown

Robert L. O'Connell
The Cuban Missle Crisis: Second Holocaust

Robert Dallek
JFK Lives

Lawrence Malkin and John F. Stacks
What It Watergate Were Still Just and Upscale Address?

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