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Thirteen days : a memoir of the Cuban missile crisis / Robert F. Kennedy ; with introductions by Robert S. McNamara and Harold Macmillan.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
- United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
- Military bases, Soviet--Cuba.
- Military bases, Soviet.
- Cuba.
- Bases militares Rusia--Cuba.
- EE. UU--Relaciones exteriores--Rusia.
- Local Subjects:
- Bases militares Rusia--Cuba.
- EE. UU--Relaciones exteriores--Rusia.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Memoir of the Cuban missile crisis
- Cuban missile crisis
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, 1969.
- Summary:
- During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In a clear and simple record, he describes the personalities involved in the crisis, with particular attention to the actions and attitudes of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. He describes the daily, even hourly, exchanges between Russian representatives and American.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Robert S. McNamara
- Introduction / Harold Macmillan
- Tuesday morning, October 16, 1962
- The President ... knew he would have to act
- A majority decision ... for a blockade
- It was not 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 Krushchev
- Expect very heavy casualties in an invasion
- This could 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.
- Notes:
- "Documents": p. 163-218.
- Facsim. on lining papers.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 36247
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