This is an auction for I WISH I'D BEEN THERE: TWENTY GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY BY TWENTY GREAT HISTORIANS, edited by Byron Hollinshead & Theodore Robb.

"Gathered by Hollinshead, former president of Oxford University Press, this uniformly perceptive and provocative volume dispels popular myths and serves up familiar events and heroes from fresh vantage points. According to Joseph Ellis, George Washington spent most of his first term trying to find a just solution to the Native American sovereignty problem. Geoffrey Ward wonders if FDR's physicians gave him the lowdown on his failing health before he decided to run for a fourth term, and William Leuchtenburg reimagines the tongue-lashing LBJ gave fellow "good ole boy" George Wallace before the 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. Personal essays on the Scopes "monkey" trial, the day Lincoln was shot and the flourishing Indian metropolis of Cahokia (in present-day Illinois) circa 1030 round out this tantalizing collection."

• Publishers Weekly (US)

"Countless historians and lay thinkers have expressed their fantasy of being a "fly on the wall," able to view and listen in as a particular moment in history unfolded. Although the various descriptions are well grounded in historical fact, they are inevitably filtered through the biases of the individual historians, and some will dispute their interpretations of reality. So this may not be strictly data-driven history, but it is provocative and should be a fun read for both historians and general readers."

Very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Paperback 2009.

300 pages + 31 photographs and other illustrations.

Very good condition.

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