Almost history : close calls, plan B's, and twists of fate in American history /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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Table of Contents:
- Planning for the Worst
- If D-Day Had Stood for Disaster - 1944
- Operation Unthinkable and World War III - 1945
- When Bomb Shelters Were In: The ABCs of Surviving an A-Bomb Attack - 1954, 1962
- Pricing Quemoy and Matsu - 1958
- Predelegating Nuclear Terror - 1959
- Not an Extraterrestrial - 1962
- Losing the Astronauts - 1969
- Forks in the Road
- A Road Not Taken to Harper's Ferry - 1859
- Powell's Choice - 1869
- The Ascension of "His Fraudulency": John Reid and the Victory of Rutherford B. Hayes - 1876
- A Bombing Order Away from Doomsday: Cuba - 1962
- A Federal-State Showdown in Mississippi - 1962
- To Indict a President? - 1974
- Fortuitous Occurrences
- Manifest Destiny or Lucky Circumstance: Jefferson and Louisiana - 1802
- The Five-Spot Would Have Looked Different: The Story of Lincoln's Beard - 1860
- How a Cigar Wrapper Smoked the Confederates - 1862
- Saved by a Speech - 1912
- "Don't Forget to Be a Good Boy": A Tennessee Legislator Listens to His Mother and Saves the Vote for Women - 1920
- Einstein's Modest Suggestion - 1939
- Code Maker's Dream, Enemy's Nightmare - 1942
- Informing on the Veep: The Kickback Revelations that Brought Down Agnew - 1973
- Close Calls
- General Washington Under Fire - 1783
- The "Firebell in the Night" Nearly Rang Early: The Tallmadge Amendment and the Missouri Compromise - 1819
- Declining an Invitation to Ford's Theatre - 1865
- How a Taxicab Accident Nearly Changed World History - 1931
- Others Didn't Make It - JFK Did - 1943
- Wernher von Braun: The Soviet Union's Loss - 1945
- A Heartbeat Away - 1955
- If the Heat Shield Had Blown - 1962
- What the Public Didn't Know About Three Mile Island - 1979
- Twists of Irony
- Revolt Not Revolution: Washington Denies Seeking Independence - 1774
- James Whistler, Failed Soldier and Bureaucrat - 1855
- More Than Mischief: The Cartoon That Did in Boss Tweed - 1875
- But for Metal Mattress Coils - 1881
- Letter from a Dayton Bicycle Shop - 1899
- Richard Nixon, FBI Agent - 1937
- The DAR Loses a Member - 1939
- LBJ: Vietnam Dove - 1954
- To Assure Nonviolence: King on Trial - 1968
- Deporting John Lennon - 1972
- If I Were in Your Shoes ... - 1987
- Plans Thwarted
- Dousing Confederate Fire: A Conspiracy Foiled - 1864
- Jefferson Davis, Guerrilla Fighter - 1865
- A Different Path to Reconciliation - 1865
- Trashing Diplomacy: Japan Rebuffs a Peace Plan - 1941
- Avoiding the Quagmire - 1963
- Planning for Cuban Rapprochement - 1963
- A Speech Undelivered - 1963
- Trying to Take Down the Cuban Roadrunner - 1967
- Opportunities Missed; Warnings Unheeded
- A Young Illinois Congressman Challenges U.S. Imperialism - 1847
- A Georgian Olive Branch Rejected - 1863
- "Ma Bell" Beats "Ma Gray" by a Nose - 1876
- No Hurricane Can Make a Left Turn: How a Killer Storm Defied the Rules and Destroyed a City - 1900
- Ice Warnings and the Unsinkable Titanic - 1912
- Advertised in Advance: The Lusitania Disaster - 1915
- Eleven Months' Warning - 1941
- Thomas Jefferson, Woodrow Wilson, and Ho Chi Minh - 1945
- A Ripsnorting Change to "Give 'Em Hell" Missed - 1950
- Left at the Space Race Starting Gate - 1957
- Genocide Alert Ignored - 1994
- For Lack of a Ferret: Aldrich Ames and the CIA Fiasco - 1985-94
- Vagaries of War
- British Frustration and the Saratoga Debacle - 1777
- Establishing a Second Europe: The American Revolution Truce Plan - 1781
- SOS from the Alamo - 1836
- Some Thought It Lunacy: Pickett's Charge Questioned - 1863
- A Question of Guilt: Custer and His Orders - 1876
- Japanese Americans: Evidence to the Contrary - 1941
- Code-Breaking Consequences
- A Decoded Note and the End of Neutrality - 1917
- Herbert Yardley's American Black Chamber and the Arms Conference - 1921
- Breaking the Code and Winning Midway - 1942
- Slippery Truth
- Plots, Forgeries, and the Assassination of Jefferson Davis - 1864
- Horror Concealed: Vignettes of an American Army Nurse - 1916
- Harry Truman's Puzzling Diary Entry - 1945
- Human Guinea Pig Research and the Tragic Death of Dr. Frank Olson - 1963
- Urban Legends
- Milking Chicago's Urban Cow Legend: Mrs. O'Leary's Cow or a Terrorist? - 1871
- Giving the Country a Bath - 1917
- The Advent of the Bambino's Curse - 1920
- Lousy Predictions
- What About Radial Tires? - 1909
- Who Is This Guy, Jules Verne? - 1920
- Some Got It Right - 1948
- A Laptop for a Large Lap - 1949