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Missiles in Cuba: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the 1962 Crisis
Contributor(s): White, Mark J. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1566631564     ISBN-13: 9781566631563
Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
OUR PRICE: $17.80  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 1998
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Annotation: The causes and consequences of the 1962 crisis as well as a day-by-day narrative of the confrontation, based on up-to-date scholarship and newly released documents. American Ways Series.

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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - 20th Century
- History | Military - United States
- Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads Of State
Dewey: 973.922
LCCN: 96054620
Series: American Ways
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.34" W x 8.21" L (0.53 lbs) 182 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1960's
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
 
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Publisher Description:
For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. Mark White's study adds an equally intense scrutiny of the causes and consequences of the crisis. Missiles in Cuba is based on up-to-date scholarship as well as Mr. White's own findings in National Security Archive materials, Kennedy Library tapes of ExComm meetings, and correspondence between Soviet officials in Washington and Havana-all newly released. His more rounded picture gives us a much clearer understanding of the policy strategies pursued by the United States and the Soviet Union (and, to a lesser extent, Cuba) that brought on the crisis. His almost hour-by-hour account of the confrontation itself also destroys some venerable myths, such as the unique initiatives attributed to Robert Kennedy. And his assessment of the consequences of the crisis points to salutary effects on Soviet-American relation and on U.S. nuclear defense strategy, but questionable influences on Soviet defense spending and on Washington's perception of its talents for "crisis management," later tested in Vietnam.
 
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