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Título: WHAT IFS? OF AMERICAN HISTORY: EMINENT HISTORIANS IMAGINE WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
Autor: COWLEY, ROBERT
Año: 2001
Género: ENSAYO HISTÓRICO
Formato: PDF

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.

The essays include:

• Might the Mayflower Not Have Sailed? by Theodore K. Rabb
• William Pitt the Elder and the Avoidance of the American Revolution by Caleb Carr
• What the Fog Wrought: The Revolution’s Dunkirk, August 29, 1776 by David McCullough
• His Accidency, John Tyler by Tom Wicker
• Lew Wallace and the Ghosts of the Shunpike by Victor Davis Hanson
• If the Lost Order Hadn’t Been Lost: Robert E. Lee Humbles the Union, 1862 by James M. McPherson
• The Northwest Conspiracy by Thomas Fleming
• Beyond the Wildest Dreams of John Wilkes Booth by Jay Winick
• The Revolution 1877 by Cecelia Holland
• The Whale Against the Wolf: THe Anglo-American War of 1896 by Andrew Roberts
• No Pearl Harbor?: FDR Delays the War by John Lukacs
• If Eisenhower Had Gone to Berlin by Antony Beevor
• Joe McCarthy’s Secret Life by Ted Morgan
• If the U-2 Hadn’t Flown by George Feifer
• The Cuban Missle Crisis: Second Holocaust by Robert L. O’Connell
• JFK Lives by Robert Dallek
• What It Watergate Were Still Just and Upscale Address? by Lawrence Malkin and John F. Stacks

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