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Title What ifs? of American history : eminent historians imagine what might have been / edited by Robert Cowley
Published New York : G.P. Putnam's, 2003

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Description xvi, 298 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction / Robert Cowley -- 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 McCullogh -- "His Accidency" John Tyler / Tom Wicker -- Lew Wallace and the Ghosts of the Shunpike / Victor Davis Hanson -- If the Lost 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Imaginary histories.
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Miscellanea. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100082
United States -- History, Military http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140338 -- Miscellanea. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001794
Genre/Form Trivia and miscellanea.
Author Cowley, Robert.
LC no. 2003046911
ISBN 0399150919