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　　I Wish I’d Been There brings together twenty of our

most distinguished historians’ responses to the question “What

scene or incident in American history would you most liked to have

witnessed—and why?” The answers illuminate crucial moments in our

past and give readers a front-row seat at some of American

history’s most dramatic events.The Salem witch trials, the raid on

Harper’s Ferry, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the voting

rights march on Selma, the beginnings of the Vietnam War—all of

these and more are vividly recreated here by a stellar list of

contributors, including Mary Beth Norton, Joseph Ellis, Carol

Berkin, Geoffrey Ward, Robert Dallek, Jay Winik, Robert Cowley,

Carolyn Gilman, and William Leuchtenburg, among other luminaries of

the profession. With imagination, insight, and vivid detail, I

Wish I’d Been There is an engaging tour through key events in

American history.

If she could be a fly on the wall at a pivotal moment in

American history, Mary Beth Norton would have witnessed the Salem

witch trials. These were driven not by greed or, as Arthur Miller

would have it, by adultery, she writes, but by Massachusetts

colonists' overwhelming fears about the frontier war with the

Wabanaki Indians. Gathered by Hollinshead, former president of

Oxford University Press and publisher of the military history

journal MHQ, the best pieces in this uniformly perceptive

and provocative volume dispel popular myths and serve 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 and

bribed a Creek chief to achieve his goals. 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. B&w illus. (Oct. 3)

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　　Byron Hollinshead is president of American

Historical Publications, a producer of books in history for adults

and for children. Previously, he was president of American Heritage

Publishing Company and Oxford University Press, Inc. He was

publisher of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History

and Time Machine: American History for Kids. He is a former

president of National History Day and, currently, vice-chair of The

National Council for History Education. Hollinshead has been a

consultant to several PBS documentaries in history including, most

recently, Freedom: A History of US, a sixteen part series

from Kunhardt Productions. As an editor and publisher, Mr.

Hollinshead has worked with many of the authors in this anthology

on their previous books and articles.

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