If The South Had Won The Civil War Author:MacKinlay Kantor Just a touch here and a tweak there . . . . — MacKinlay Kantor, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, master storyteller, shows us how the South could have won the Civil War, how two small shifts in history (as we know it) in the summer of 1863 could have turned the tide for the Confederacy. What would have happened: to the Union, to Abraham Lincoln, to... more » the people of the North and South, to the world?
If the South Had Won the Civil War originally appeared in Look Magazine nearly half a century ago. It immediately inspired a deluge of letters and telegrams from astonished readers and became an American classic overnight. Published in book form soon after, Kantor's masterpiece has been unavailable for a decade. Now, this much requested classic is once again available for a new generation of readers and features a stunning cover by acclaimed Civil War artist Don Troiani, a new introduction by award-winning alternate history author Harry Turtledove, and fifteen superb illustrations by the incomparable Dan Nance.
It all begins on that fateful afternoon of Tuesday, May 12, 1863, when a deplorable equestrian accident claims the life of General Ulysses S. Grant . . . .« less
An interesting book, though it spends too much time on pre-war politics. Interesting projections about the American west, Hawaii & Alaska too. The interesting stuff is near the end about how aa agrarian south (Confederate States of America), industrial north (United States of America) and fiercely independent Republic of Texas, work together in World wars I & II. It ends in a kind of surprise which I won't spoil here. It was an ok read with a good introduction by the master of alternate histories, Harry Turtledove.