| Portion of title |
13 days |
| Portion of title |
Memoir of the Cuban missile crisis |
| Portion of title |
Cuban missile crisis |
| Contents |
Foreword / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- "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 / Richard E. Neustadt, Graham T. Allison. |
| Abstract |
Robert Kennedy recounts the details of his brother's direction of the American response to the Cuban missile crisis. |
| General note | "Reissued in Norton paperback with a new foreword 1999"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography note | "Documents": pages 149-174. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176) and index. |
| LCCN | 73141589 |
| ISBN | 0393318346 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780393318340 (pbk.) |
