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

by Cowley, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780425198186
• ISBN10: 0425198189
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-07
• Publisher: Berkley

Summary

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 Long Island, and James McPherson envisions Lee's successful invasion of the North in 1862.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Maps and Illustrations	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Might the Mayflower Not Have Sailed?	p. 1
William Pitt the Elder and the Avoidance of the American Revolution	p. 17
What the Fog Wrought: The Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776	p. 43
"His Accidency" John Tyler	p. 55
Lew Wallace and the Ghosts of the Shunpike	p. 67
If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost: Robert E. Lee Humbles the Union, 1862	p. 87
The Northwest Conspiracy	p. 103
Beyond the Wildest Dreams of John Wilkes Booth	p. 127
The Revolution of 1877	p. 147
The Whale Against the Wolf: The Anglo-American War of 1896	p. 163
No Pearl Harbor?: FDR Delays the War	p. 179
If Eisenhower Had Gone to Berlin	p. 189
Joe McCarthy's Secret Life	p. 205
If the U-2 Hadn't Flown	p. 225
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Second Holocaust	p. 251
JFK Lives	p. 273
What If Watergate Were Still Just an Upscale Address?	p. 285
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