<Tr> <Th> Genre </Th> <Td> alternate history </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Published </Th> <Td> 1961 (1961) </Td> </Tr> <P> If the South Had Won the Civil War is a 1961 alternate history book by MacKinlay Kantor, a writer who also wrote several novels about the American Civil War as it actually happened . It was originally published in the November 22, 1960, issue of Look magazine . It generated such a response that it was published in 1961 as a book . </P> <P> The book is written in the manner of a history text published in the alternate reality of 1961 and describing the developments of the past century, in which the Confederate States of America had existed as a separate nation - state . It includes numerous footnotes and quotations from various (fictional) historical writings . </P>

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