Book blurb

In the interest of protecting the author from her publisher's stupidity, I'm not naming names here:

"In a world nearly identical to ours, the North won the Civil War, Ben and JLo got married and everyone dresses well to attend the Grammys. Oh, and Russia never sold Alaska to the U.S."

Checking every history book I can come across, not to mention my own memory banks, but didn't the North actually win the Civil War?

Or is that the "nearly" part of the book? If so, why mention it?

Kensington Books, you should be ashamed of yourselves!