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

Name: What Ifs? of American History Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
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ISBN: 9780425198186

ISBN-10: 0425198189

ISBN-13: 9780425198186

Edition: 2003

Authors: Robert Cowley

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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 Timesbestseller What If?(tm)-David McCullough imagines Washington's disastrous defeat at the Battle of…

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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/7/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.792

Robert Cowley is the cofounder & editor of "MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History" & the editor of the anthology "Experience of War".



List of Maps and Illustrations


Introduction



Might the Mayflower Not Have Sailed?



William Pitt the Elder and the Avoidance of the American Revolution



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?