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10 best books like The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln (Stephen L. Carter): Watergate, The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century, Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II, For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne had won at Saratoga, Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War, The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854, Freeman, Disunion: Modern Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln's Election to the Emancipation Proclamation, Manassas, 1862

Watergate
AuthorThomas Mallon
ISBN0307378721
From one of our most esteemed historical novelists, a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators.
 
For all the monumental documentation that Watergate generated—uncountable volumes of committee...
The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century
AuthorHarry Turtledove
ISBN0345439902
Explore fascinating, often chilling "what if" accounts of the world that could have existed–and still might yet . . .

Science fiction’s most illustrious and visionary authors hold forth the ultimate alternate history collection. Here you’ll experience mind-bending tales that...
Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II
AuthorGregory Benford
ISBN0824086589
Preface: Imagining the abyss/ Gregory Benford
Introduction: Hitler victorious/ Norman Spinrad
Two dooms/ C.M. Kornbluth
The Fall of Frenchy Steiner/ Hilary Bailey
Through road no whither/ Greg Bear
Weihnachtsabend/ Keith Roberts
Thor meets Captain America/ David...
For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne had won at Saratoga
AuthorRobert Sobel
ISBN1853675040
For Want of a Nail is an alternate history classic. The outcome of one battle in the American Revolution diverges from reality, and sparks an unstoppable chain of events which affects the history of the whole North American continent. In reality, the British general John Burgoyne, heavily outnumbered...
Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War
AuthorRobert Roper
ISBN0802715532
Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War
viii, 421 pp. 8vo. The Civil War is seen anew, and a great American family brought to life, in Robert Roper's brilliant evocation of the Family Whitman. Walt Whitman's work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War had a profound...
The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854
AuthorWilliam W. Freehling
ISBN0195072596
Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the South in the eight decades before the Civil War was, in William Freehling's words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream." It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, where the egalitarian...
Freeman
AuthorLeonard Pitts Jr.
ISBN1932841644
Freeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Upon learning of Lee's surrender, Sam--a runaway slave who once worked for the Union Army--decides to leave his safe haven in Philadelphia...
Disunion: Modern Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln's Election to the Emancipation Proclamation
AuthorTed Widmer
ISBN1579129285
A major collection of modern commentary from scholars, historians, and Civil War buffs on the significant events of the Civil War, culled from The New York Times' popular Disunion on-line journal.

Since its debut, The New York Times' acclaimed web journal entitled 'Disunion' has published...
Manassas
AuthorJames Reasoner
ISBN1581820089
Manassas is the first book in a series of historical novels spanning the Civil War. The Brannon family of Culpeper County, Virginia - Abigail, a widow, and her four sons (Will, Mac, Titus, and Henry) and daughter (Cordelia) - work a good-sized, self-sufficient farm. The Brannons do not own slaves, but...
1862
AuthorRobert Conroy
ISBN0345482379
The Civil War comes alive in all its passion and fury–only now the Brits are fighting . . . alongside the Confederacy

Outraged when the U.S. Navy seizes three Confederates aboard an English sailing ship, Britain retaliates by entering the fray in support of the Rebels–and suddenly it’s...
The Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee
AuthorThomas Fleming
ISBN0765313529
1865. The Civil War is over and the South lies in ruins. But for some, the former slaveholders have not been punished enough. A cabal of powerful men, led by Charles A. Dana, the Assistant Secretary of War, plot to break the spirit of the South once and for all--by convicting General Robert E. Lee of treason...
O: A Presidential Novel
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN1451625960
The truth only fiction can tell.This is a novel about aspiration and delusion, set during the presidential election of 2012 and written by an anonymous author who has spent years observing politics and the fraught relationship between public image and self-regard.

The novel includes revealing...
Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
AuthorDouglas L. Wilson
ISBN0375703969
Abraham Lincoln's remarkable emergence from the rural Midwest and his rise to the presidency have been the stuff of romance and legend. But as Douglas L. Wilson shows us in Honor's Voice, Lincoln's transformation was not one long triumphal march, but a process that was more than once seriously derailed....
Surrounded by Enemies: A Breakpoint Novel
AuthorBryce Zabel
ISBN1626818290
What if Kennedy survived Dallas?

President John F. Kennedy has lived through the ambush in Dealey Plaza. America holds its collective breath, seeing its president nearly executed in broad daylight. But as the country marches on, the office of the President finds itself under a much more insidious...
Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864
AuthorGordon C. Rhea
ISBN0807132446
Gordon Rhea's gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign-which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civil War-vividly re-creates the battles and maneuvers from the stalemate on the North Anna River through the Cold Harbor offensive. Cold Harbor: Grant and...
Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
AuthorJohn Fabian Witt
ISBN1416569839
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Bancroft Prize Winner
ABA Silver Gavel Award Winner
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for...
Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington
AuthorDaniel Mark Epstein
ISBN0345458001
Kindred spirits despite their profound differences in position, Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman shared a vision of the democratic character. They had read or listened to each other's words at crucial turning points in their lives, and both were utterly transformed by the tragedy of the Civil War....
Jack 1939
AuthorFrancine Mathews
ISBN1594487197
Charming. Reckless. Brilliant. Deadly.

A young Jack Kennedy travels to Europe on a secret mission for Franklin Roosevelt as the world braces for war.

It’s the spring of 1939, and the prospect of war in Europe looms large. The United States has no intelligence service. In Washington,...
Lincoln's Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image
AuthorJoshua Zeitz
ISBN0670025666
A timely and intimate look into Abraham Lincoln’s White House through the lives of his two closest aides and confidants

Lincoln’s official secretaries John Hay and John Nicolay enjoyed more access, witnessed more history, and knew Lincoln better than anyone outside of the president’s...
Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse
AuthorJames L. Swanson
ISBN0061233781
In Bloody Crimes, James L. Swanson—the Edgar® Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt—brings to life two epic events of the Civil War era: the thrilling chase to apprehend Confederate president Jefferson Davis in the wake of the Lincoln assassination and the momentous  20 -day...
The Assassin's Accomplice
AuthorKate Clifford Larson
ISBN0465038158
Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, The Assassin's Accomplice tells the story of the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln through the eyes of its only female participant, Mary Surratt, the first woman ever to be executed by the federal government of the United States.

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