What ifs? of American history : eminent historians imagine what might have been
Title:
What ifs? of American history : eminent historians imagine what might have been
Author:
Cowley, Robert.
Publication Information:
New York : G.P. Putnam's, [2003]
©2003
Physical Description:
xvi, 298 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:
English
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? / Lawrence Malkin and John F. Stacks.
Subject Term:
ISBN:
9780399150913
Format :
Book
