What Ifs? of American History

Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
Herausgeber: Cowley, Robert

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780425198186
• ISBN-10: 0425198189
• Artikelnr.: 21200935

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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?