ISBN: 0425176428
ISBN 13: 9780425176429
Publisher: Berkley Books
Pages: 395
Format: Paperback
Authors: Robert Cowley, Stephen E. Ambrose, John Keegan, David McCullough, James M. McPherson, William H. McNeill, Victor Davis Hanson, Josiah Ober, Lewis H. Lapham, Barry S. Strauss, Cecelia Holland, Theodore K. Rabb, Ross Hassig, Geoffrey Parker, Thomas Fleming, Alistair Horne, Theodore F. Cook Jr., Stephen W. Sears, David Clay Large, Arthur Waldron
Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-its of history. In these twenty never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions:
Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did?
Why, how, and when was our fortune made real?
The answers are surprising, sometimes frightening, and always entertaining..