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Title | What If? America: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been | Height | 13 mm |
Author | Robert Cowley | Width | 2 mm |
ISBN-13 | 9780330427296 | Binding | PAPERBACK |
ISBN-10 | #0330427296 | Spine Width | |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan India | Pages | 320 |
Edition | Availability | Out Of Stock |

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What If? America: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
Author: Robert Cowley
In this new collection of essays, some of the worlds most important historians speculate about some of Americas most intriguing crossroads. Spanning the years from independence to Watergate, What If? America poses some irresistible questions and provides some brilliant answers. Among these Antony Beevor (Stalingrad) entertains the possibility of Eisenhowers capture of B In this new collection of essays, some of the worlds most important historians speculate about some of Americas most intriguing crossroads. Spanning the years from independence to Watergate, What If? America poses some irresistible questions and provides some brilliant answers. Among these Antony Beevor (Stalingrad) entertains the possibility of Eisenhowers capture of Berlin before the Soviets arrival in 1945; Caleb Carr (The Alienist) ask what if there been no American Revolution and Robert Dallek (An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963) on one of the most agonizing American what ifs of all: what would have happened if JFK hadnt been assassinated. Engaging, thought-provoking and convincingly argued, these essays shed new light on the most powerful nation in the world, and are indispensible for anyone remotely interested in how the world became what it is today.