Stern, Sheldon M.

The Cuban Missile Crisis in American memory : myths versus reality / Sheldon M. Stern. - viii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Stanford nuclear age series . - Stanford nuclear age series. .

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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National Security Council (U.S.). Executive Committee.


Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962--Historiography.


United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--1961-1963.

E 841 / .S7575 2012