Almost History: Close Calls, Plan B's, and Twists of Fate in America's Past
By Roger Bruns.
Description
Now in paperback, and in the tradition of the bestseller What If -- the events that narrowly missed becoming true history.Throughout American history, many speeches and documents were prepared for events that might have happened, but never did: Eisenhower's personal note apologizing for the failure of D-Day; Lincoln's plans for post-Civil War Reconstruction; the CIA's memo discussing the use of Americans as guinea pigs in drug tests, among many others.Almost History includes more than eighty selections, many supported by photographs of the actual documents, and each is introd...
ISBN(s)
0786885793, 9780786885794
