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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Robert Kennedy Recounts The Details Of His Brother's Direction Of The American Response To The Cuban Missile Crisis. Foreword / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- Tuesday Morning, October 16, 1962 -- The Pres...ident Knew He Would Have To Act. -- A Majority Opinion For A Blockade -- It Was Now Up To One Single Man. -- The Important Meeting Of The Oas -- I Met With Dobrynin -- The Danger Was Anything But Over. -- There Were Almost Daily Communications With Khrushchev. -- Expect Very Heavy Casualties In An Invasion. -- This Would Mean War. -- Those Hours In The Cabinet Room -- The President Ordered The Ex Comm -- Some Of The Things We Learned -- The Importance Of Placing Ourselves In The Other Country's Shoes. -- Afterword / Richard E. Neustadt, Graham T. Allison. By Robert F. Kennedy ; Foreword By Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Reissued In Norton Paperback With A New Foreword 1999--t.p. Verso. Documents: P. 149-174. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 175-176) And Index.
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
In October 1962, At The Height Of The Cold War, The United States And The Soviet Union Were Sliding Inexorably Toward A Nuclear Conflict Over The Placement Of Missiles In Cuba. Veteran Journalist Mich...ael Dobbs Has Used Previously Untapped American, Soviet, And Cuban Sources To Produce The Most Authoritative Book Yet On The Cuban Missile Crisis. In His Hour-by-hour Chronicle, He Takes Us Onto The Decks Of American Ships Patrolling Cuba; Inside Sweltering Soviet Submarines And Missile Units As They Ready Their Warheads; And Inside The White House And The Kremlin As Kennedy And Khrushchev--rational, Intelligent Men Separated By An Ocean Of Ideological Suspicion--agonize Over The Possibility Of War. He Shows How These Two Leaders Recognized The Terrifying Realities Of The Nuclear Age While Castro--never Swayed By Conventional Political Considerations--demonstrated The Messianic Ambition Of A Man Selected By History For A Unique Mission.--from Publisher Description. Americans -- Russians -- Cubans -- Eyeball To Eyeball -- Till Hell Freezes Over -- Intel -- Nukes -- Strike First -- Hunt For The Grozny -- Shootdown -- Some Sonofabitch -- Run Like Hell -- Cat And Mouse -- Crate And Return. Michael Dobbs. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [363]-405) And Index.
The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 5: The Cold War
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Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
One of the most influental political science works written in the post World War II era, the original edition of Essence of Decision is a unique and fascinating examination of the pivotal event of the... cold Cold War. Not simply revised, but completely re-written, the Second Edition of this classic text is a fresh reinterpretation of the theories and events surrounding the Cuban Missle Crisis, incorporating all new information from the Kennedy tapes and recently declassified Soviet files. Essence of Decision Second Edition, is a vivid look at decision-making under pressure and is the only single volume work that attempts to answer the enduring question: how should citizens understand the actions of their government?
Resurrection Day
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Back Channel
An Amalgam Of Fact And Fiction About A Young Black Woman On Whom The Outcome Of The Cuban Missile Crisis Depends. October 1962. In Cuba: Soviet Ships Off-load What Intelligence Reveals To Be Nuclear M...issiles. In Washington, President Kennedy And His Advisers Are In Furious Debate Over How Long They Can Wait To Discover What The Soviets Intend Before Dropping The First Bomb. And, In Ithaca, New York, Margo Jensen-a Nineteen-year-old Cornell Sophomore-is Swept Up In A Bizarre Concatenation Of Circumstances That Will Make Of Her The Back Channel Liaison Between Soviet Premier Khrushchev And Kennedy. Events Unfold Too Quickly For Her Even To Ask Why Me? But The Stunning Answer Is Revealed Bit By Bit As She Races From Ithaca To Bulgaria To Washington, D.c., Drawn Ever More Deeply Into The Crossfire-figurative And Literal-of Infighting Between Governmental Agencies, Both American And Soviet; Into The Confidence And-unsettlingly-the Affection Of The President Of The United States; Into Desperate Negotiations To Avoid Nuclear War; And, Finally, Into The Secrets Of The Extraordinary Legacy-of Honor And Bravery-she Inherited From The Father She Never Knew-- Stephen L. Carter.
The Translator
A novel of tremendous scope and beauty, The Translator tells of the relationship between an exiled Russian poet and his American translator during the Cuban missile crisis, a time when a writer's word...s — especially forbidden ones — could be powerful enough to change the course of history.Book MagazineSet in 1962, the latest work from this gifted, little-known author concerns Kit Malone, a sensitive, troubled undergraduate at a Midwestern college who comes under the spell of visiting professor Innokenti Issayevich Falin, a famous and mysterious Russian poet with a troubled and painful past. The two meet in Falin's class, and Kit later assists him in translating his poems. In a novel that affirms and celebrates language, Crowley nonetheless demonstrates the impossibility of translation—rhyme and meter, not to mention meaning, are so often lost. Yet in this dualistic world of Russia and America, professor and student, attempts at bridging language and culture must be made. Some readers will feel that Crowley's characters take themselves and their poetry too seriously and could benefit from a healthy dose of humor. Nevertheless, this simple and sincere novel, which masterfully renders a moment in history, possesses a certain beauty. —James Schiff
The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs
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A Place We Knew Well
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"One Hell of a Gamble": Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964
No other book offers this inside look at the strategies of the Soviet leadership. John F. Kennedy did not live to write his memoirs; Fidel Castro will not reveal what he knows; and the records of the ...Soviet Union have long been sealed from public view: Of the most frightening episode of the Cold War—the Cuban Missile Crisis—we have had an incomplete picture. When did Castro embrace the Soviet Union? What proposals were put before the Kremlin through Kennedy's back-channel diplomacy? How close did we come to nuclear war? These questions have now been answered for the first time. This important and controversial book draws the missing half of the story from secret Soviet archives revealed exclusively by the authors, including the files of Nikita Khrushchev and his leadership circle. Contained in these remarkable documents are the details of over forty secret meetings between Robert Kennedy and his Soviet contact, records of Castro's first solicitation of Soviet favor, and the plans, suspicions, and strategies of Khrushchev. This unique research opportunity has allowed the authors to tell the complete, fascinating, and terrifying story of the most dangerous days of the last half-century.
