What If America. Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Macmillan
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: First Edition

Description: 298 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The "what if" concept is one of the most original and engaging on the current history bookshelf. The essays are chock-full of provocative ideas; they are as accessible to the general reader as they are to the scholar; and they are the perfect gift for the dedicated history buff on anyones list.In this new collection of never-before-published essays, our brightest historians speculate about some of Americas more intriguing crossroads. Some irresistible highlights Caleb Carr ( The Alienist ) on America had there been no Revolution; Tom Wicker on the first time a vice president, John Tyler, succeeded a deceased president and its surprising ramifications; Jay Winik (April 1865) on the havoc that might have resulted if Booth had succeeded in his plan to assassinate Johnson and Seward as well as Lincoln; Antony Beevor ( The Fall of Berlin 1945 ) on the possibility of Eisenhowers capture of Berlin before the Soviets arrival there in 1945; and Robert Dallek (the upcoming An Unfinished Life about John F. Kennedy ) on one of the most agonizing American "what if"s of what might have happened if JFK hadnt been assassinated. Author Robert Cowley is the founding editor of The Quarterly Journal of Military History , which has been nominated for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence. He is the editor of What If (tm) , volumes I and II, No End Save Victory , and With My Face to the Enemy .

ISBN: 9781405051163