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The Fourteenth Day - JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis - The Secret White House Tapes
David G. Coleman
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Description for The Fourteenth Day - JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis - The Secret White House Tapes
Hardcover. A fly-on-the-wall narrative of the Oval Office in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis, using JFK's secret White House tapes. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
On October 28, 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba. Popular history has marked that day as the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a seminal moment in American history. As President Kennedy’s secretly recorded White House tapes now reveal, the reality was not so simple. Nuclear missiles were still in Cuba, as were nuclear bombers, short-range missiles, and thousands of Soviet troops. From October 29, Kennedy had to walk a very fine line—push hard enough to get as much nuclear weaponry out of Cuba as possible, yet avoid forcing the volatile Khrushchev into a ... Read more
On October 28, 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba. Popular history has marked that day as the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a seminal moment in American history. As President Kennedy’s secretly recorded White House tapes now reveal, the reality was not so simple. Nuclear missiles were still in Cuba, as were nuclear bombers, short-range missiles, and thousands of Soviet troops. From October 29, Kennedy had to walk a very fine line—push hard enough to get as much nuclear weaponry out of Cuba as possible, yet avoid forcing the volatile Khrushchev into a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393084412
SKU
V9780393084412
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About David G. Coleman
The director of the Miller Center’s Presidential Recordings Program, David G. Coleman is a history professor at the University of Virginia. He lives in Arlington.
Reviews for The Fourteenth Day - JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis - The Secret White House Tapes
"No family has been better at shaping its own mythology than the Kennedys. Using White House tapes and his own prodigious research and keen insight, David Coleman has painted a portrait of the JFK White House after the Cuban Missile Crisis as it really was. The picture is not damning, but it is human and revealing."
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