The Cuban Missile Crisis in American memory : myths versus reality / Sheldon M. Stern.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Stanford nuclear age seriesPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]Description: viii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780804783767 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0804783764 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780804783774 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0804783772 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E 841 .S7575 2012
Contents:
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 Cuban Missile Crisis : an unanticipated consequence? -- Conclusion : Leadership matters -- Epilogue : What if?
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-188) and index.

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 Cuban Missile Crisis : an unanticipated consequence? -- Conclusion : Leadership matters -- Epilogue : What if?

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