Cargando…

The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory : Myths versus Reality /

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stern, Sheldon M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Colección:Stanford Nuclear Age Series
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (208 p.)
ISBN:9780804784320
9783110704204
Acceso:restricted access