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The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis: The Secret White House Tapes
Contributor(s): Coleman, David (Author)

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 ISBN: 0393084418     ISBN-13: 9780393084412
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - 20th Century
Dewey: 973.922
LCCN: 2012025397
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.44" W x 9.4" L (1.23 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/18/2012 pg. 45
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2012
Library Journal 09/01/2012 pg. 116
Booklist 10/01/2012 pg. 14
 
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Publisher Description:
On October 28, 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba. Popular history has marked that day as the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a seminal moment in American history. As President Kennedy's secretly recorded White House tapes now reveal, the reality was not so simple. Nuclear missiles were still in Cuba, as were nuclear bombers, short-range missiles, and thousands of Soviet troops. From October 29, Kennedy had to walk a very fine line--push hard enough to get as much nuclear weaponry out of Cuba as possible, yet avoid forcing the volatile Khrushchev into a combative stance. On the domestic front, an election loomed and the press was bristling at White House "news management." Using new material from the tapes, historian David G. Coleman puts readers in the Oval Office during one of the most highly charged, and in the end most highly regarded, moments in American history.

Contributor Bio(s): Coleman, David: - The director of the Miller Center's Presidential Recordings Program, David G. Coleman is a history professor at the University of Virginia. He lives in Arlington.
 
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