Now, let’s just suppose.…
Forge Books by MacKinlay Kantor
Long Remember
If the South Had Won the Civil War
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
IF THE SOUTH HAD WON THE CIVIL WAR
Copyright © 1960 by MacKinlay Kantor. Renewed © 1988 by the Estate of MacKinlay Kantor. Reprinted by permission of the Kantor Estate and the Estate’s agent, Donald Maass, 157 West 57th Street, Suite 703, New York, NY 10019.
“An Historical Inversion,” copyright © 1967 by MacKinlay Kantor. Renewed © 1995 by the Estate of MacKinlay Kantor. Reprinted by permission of the Kantor Estate and the Estate’s agent, Donald Maass.
If the South Had Won the Civil War was first published in Look magazine in 1960, and, together with “An Historical Inversion,” was included in Story Teller, published by Doubleday in 1967.
Introduction copyright © 2001 by Harry N. Turtledove
Interior illustrations copyright © 2001 by Dan Nance
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kantor, MacKinlay.
If the South had won the Civil War / MacKinlay Kantor.
p. cm.
Originally published in 1967 as a short story in the book Story Teller.
“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”
ISBN 0-312-86553-8 (hc)
ISBN 0-312-86949-5 (pbk)
1. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Fiction. 2. Southern States—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3521.A47 I35 2001
813'.52—dc21
2001033518
eISBN 9781466841611
First eBook edition: March 2013
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