The Better Angels of our Nature: What if the American Civil War didn't happen? - Paperback

by Bob Faser (Author)

What if Abraham Lincoln chose not to go to war to preserve the Union? What if Lincoln lived to his 80s, including a number of years spent in Britain and Australia? What if the vast land area between Mexico and Canada was, from 1861 to 1926, the location of not one, nor two, but five different nations? What if both slavery and polygamy persisted in the Empire of Texas for a generation longer than they did anywhere else in North America? What if such Europeans as Florence Nightingale, Alfred Dreyfus, and Dickens's "Tiny Tim" all spent time on the North American continent? What if those who died during the Spanish Influenza epidemic in 1918 included a psychiatric patient in a Georgia hospital named John Wilkes Booth and an inmate in a prisoner-of-war camp in Pennsylvania named Adolf Hitler?

Author Biography

Bob Faser grew up in Bayonne, New Jersey, but has spent his adult life in Australia, for the most part in the state of Tasmania. Bob studied at Lafayette College, Princeton Theological Seminary, the Irish School of Ecumenics, the University of Tasmania, and the Melbourne College of Divinity, where he completed his Doctor of Ministry Studies degree on Christmas in popular culture. Bob is a retired (recycled?) minister in the Uniting Church in Australia (Congregational, Methodist, and Presbyterian) and has served as a parish minister, an ecumenical staffer, and a hospital chaplain. Bob is an active Rotarian and an enthusiastic amateur Santa Claus. Bob's blog "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way ..." can be found at http: //revdocbob.blogspot.com.au. This is his first work of fiction