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''What Ifs? of American History'', subtitled ''Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been'', is a collection of seventeen essays dealing with counterfactual history regarding the United States. It was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 2003, ISBN 0-399-15091-9, and this book as well as its two predecessors, ''What If?'' and ''What If? 2'', were edited by Robert Cowley. ==Essays== *"Might the ''Mayflower'' Not Have Sailed?" by Theodore K. Rabb * *What if the ''Mayflower'' had not set sail from England in 1620? *"William Pitt the Elder and the Avoidance of the American Revolution" by Caleb Carr * *What if Parliament had pursued a more conciliatory policy regarding the Thirteen Colonies' war debts? *"What the Fog Wrought: The Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776" by David McCullough * *What if George Washington's retreat after the Battle of Long Island had not succeeded? (This essay is a reprint from ''What If?'') *"'His Accidency' John Tyler" by Tom Wicker * *What if the tenth President of the United States had not assumed the full power of the presidency after the death of his predecessor, William Henry Harrison? *"Lew Wallace and the Ghosts of the Shunpike" by Victor Davis Hanson * *What if General Wallace's reinforcement of General Grant at the Shiloh had been successful? *"If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost: Robert E. Lee Humbles the Union, 1862" by James M. McPherson * *What if Lee had succeeded in destroying the Army of the Potomac? (This essay is a reprint from ''What If?''.) *"The Northwest Conspiracy" by Thomas Fleming * *What if the Copperheads in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio had succeeded in inciting protest against the Lincoln administration? *"Beyond the Wildest Dreams of John Wilkes Booth" by Jay Winik * *What if Booth's co-conspirators had succeeded in assassinating Johnson and Seward? *"The Revolution of 1877" by Cecelia Holland * *What if the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 had turned into a full-blown worker's uprising? *"The Whale Against the Wolf: The Anglo-American War of 1896" by Andrew Roberts * *What if the United Kingdom and the United States went to war over the border dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana? *"No Pearl Harbor? FDR Delays the War" by John Lukacs * *What if Japan had ''not'' attacked Pearl Harbor? *"If Eisenhower Had Gone to Berlin" by Antony Beevor * *What if the Allied armies had not stopped at the Elbe? *"Joe McCarthy's Secret Life" by Ted Morgan * *What if Senator McCarthy had done more damage than he did? *"If the U-2 Hadn't Flown" by George Feifer * *What if there had been no U-2 flight on May 1, 1960? *"The Cuban Missile Crisis: Second Holocaust" by Robert L. O'Connell * *What if the Crisis had spiraled into World War III? *"JFK Lives" by Robert Dallek * *What if President Kennedy had not been assassinated? *"What if Watergate Were Still Just an Upscale Address?" by Lawrence Malkin and John F. Stacks * *What if the Watergate break-in had ''not'' been discovered? 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「What Ifs? of American History」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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