Close Calls, Plan B’s And Twists Of Fate In America’s Past

By Roger Bruns

Introduction By Douglas Brinkley Text from DJ Cline.com

If you want to know what can happen in the future it helps to see how things might have turned out in the past. This book has all sorts of roads nearly taken. Richard Nixon might have joined the FBI in the 1930s. Imagine him using his tactics against J. Edgar Hoover to get ahead. Winston Churchill pushing for war against Russia in 1945. Ho Chi Minh quoting Thomas Jefferson in declaring Vietnam’s independence hoping to get American support against the French. It drives home how the little things can balloon into world changing moments. Text from DJ Cline.com

My personal favorite is the memo to federal employees to rake up leaves to reduce the risk of fire burning down their house during a nuclear blast. Remind me to get a leaf blower with a Geiger counter. Text from DJ Cline.com

A light read on applied history.

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