TY - BOOK AU - Beevor,Antony AU - Carr,Caleb AU - Dallek,Robert AU - Lukacs,John AU - Winik,Jay AU - Cowley,Robert TI - What ifs? of American history: eminent historians imagine what might have been SN - 0399150919 AV - E 179 .W556 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons KW - United States KW - History KW - Miscellanea KW - History, Military KW - Imaginary histories KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 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?; awrence Malkin and John F. Stacks ER -