Title:
Thirteen days : a memoir of the Cuban missile crisis / by Robert F. Kennedy ; foreword by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Author:
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007.
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton, 1999, ©1971.
Call Number:
E183.8 .R9 K43 1999
Abstract:
Robert Kennedy recounts the details of his brother's direction of the American response to the Cuban missile crisis.
ISBN:
9780393318340
Physical Description:
185 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
"Reissued in Norton paperback with a new foreword 1999"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Foreword / "Tuesday morning, October 16, 1962" -- "The President knew he would have to act." -- "A majority opinion for a blockade" -- "It was now 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 Khrushchev." -- "Expect very heavy casualties in an invasion." -- "This would 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." -- Afterword
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