The Cuban Missile Crisis in American memory : myths versus reality / Sheldon M. Stern.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Stern, Sheldon M.

Series:

• Stanford Nuclear Age Series
• Stanford nuclear age series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962--Historiography.
• United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
• Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
• United States--Foreign relations--1961-1963.
• National Security Council (U.S.). Executive Committee.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two weeks of secret Cuban missile crisis deliberations. A half-century after the event it is surely time to demonstrate, once and for all, that RFK's Thirteen Days and the personal memoirs of other ExComm members cannot be taken seriously as historically accurate accounts of the ExComm meetings.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; 1. History: From Reel to Real; 2. The Template: Robert F. Kennedy's Thirteen Days; 3. The Real Robert Kennedy; 4. The Mythmaking of Robert McNamara; 5. The Forgotten Voice of Dean Rusk; 6. The Erratic Expertise of Llewellyn Thompson; 7. The Selective Memory of McGeorge Bundy; 8. The Determined Diplomacy of Adlai Stevenson; 9. The Trollope Ploy Myth; 10. Lyndon Johnson and the Missile Crisis: An Unanticipated Consequence?; Conclusion: Leadership Matters; Epilogue: What If?; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780804784320
• 0804784329

OCLC:

813004994