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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stern, Sheldon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012.
Colección:Stanford nuclear age series.
Temas:
National Security Council (U.S.). > Executive Committee.
National Security Council (U.S.). > Executive Committee
1961-1963
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 > Historiography.
Crise de Cuba, oct. 1962 > Historiographie.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Diplomatic relations
Historiography
United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > 1961-1963.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > URSS.
URSS > Relations extérieures > États-Unis.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > 1961-1963.
Soviet Union
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • History : from reel to real
  • The template : Robert F. Kennedy's Thirteen days
  • The real Robert Kennedy
  • The mythmaking of Robert McNamara
  • The forgotten voice of Dean Rusk
  • The erratic expertise of Llewellyn Thompson
  • The selective memory of McGeorge Bundy
  • The determined diplomacy of Adlai Stevenson
  • The Trollope ploy myth
  • Lyndon Johnson and the missile crisis : an unanticipated consequence?
  • Conclusion : leadership matters
  • Epilogue : What if?

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