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    If The South Had Won The Civil War
    If The South Had Won The Civil War
    If The South Had Won The Civil War
    Audiobook2 hours

    If The South Had Won The Civil War

    Written by MacKinlay Kantor and Harry Turtledove

    Narrated by William Dufris

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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 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 listeners.

    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 . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 26, 2019
    ISBN9781515919650
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    • 2/5
      I was really disappointed by this book. I had looked forward to it for sometime after it had been highly recommended to me base on how much I loved "the probablility broach" a story about a new deminsion created by one small change during the revolutionary war. (Though it takes most of the story to learn that's what the world is). This is somewhat similar< I can see why the recommendation, but there wasn't much of a story there. It was really short, just over 100 pages. There weren't really any characters to speak of. The first half of the book particularly where really written for civil war buffs. I have no clue what is he same and what is different. Until the south wins the battle of Gettysburg. Kantor argues that with such a victory the north would just give up, and they chose to stop fighting. Not long after economic windfall is greater than ever because of the fewer lives lost. Texas leaves the CSA because the can. But World Wars show that the three nations need each other. But the race issue is a non-issue because as long as its not being brought upon them by oppressors, they get rid of slavery on there own by 1870 and full rights by 1950s. Lots of feel good southern pride from around the time of the American civil rights movement when rivisionist history of the civil war.
    • 3/5
      Have you ever wondered if a decisive historical event had happened differently, how the world would have been effected? This tiny little book was filled with how one man pictured the world events that would have occurred if the South had successfully defeated the Union forces in the Civil War and won their independence.MacKinlay Kantor takes two events, turns them around, and progresses from that point. The two events that the author changes are the Battle of Gettysburg and a riding accident of Ulysses Grant. The effects of Grant's riding accident is death several weeks before the Battle of Vicksburg. Having no other competent general, the Union forces are easily driven off and the Confederacy maintains its control of the Mississippi. The Battle of Gettysburg is a decisive victory for Lee and the Army of Virginia and they move on to Washington DC and capture Lincoln and the Nation's Capitol.By the end of 1863 the War of Southern Secession is over and the Confederate States of America are recognized as an independent nation. The USA capital is moved from Washington DC to Columbus Ohio (renamed Columbia) and the CSA capital is moved from Richmond to Washington DD (District of Dixie). Several other interesting projections are the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on the same day, different city, same assassin, Robert E. Lee's CSA presidency, the voluntary abolition of slavery by the CSA in 1888, Cuba as a member state of the CSA, and the eventual reunion of Texas Republic, CSA and USA.I've never before read a book that was an "alternate" history so this was extremely thought provoking for me. I can't say that I believe that even if these two events had happened as projected that I would expect the history to happen as written here, but it definitely made me stop and think.
    • 4/5
      I’m intrigued by the ‘what if’ questions in general. To sit and think about how different the world would be without certain events has always captured my interest. Kantor’s book, though good, didn’t go far enough into the lives of everyday people. It read like a real history book. That was good, but I live in the real world of ordinary people. I wanted a novel. The Confederate victory occurred because of a horse. Grant’s groom did not want him to ride the horse, but Grant thought his equestrian skills were sufficient and he didn’t want to wait to find another horse. He should have waited.