The Cuban Missile Crisis in American memory : myths versus reality - Stern, Sheldon M. (Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012)
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?
Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-188) and index.
Keywords: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 -- Historiography; National Security Council (U.S.). -- Executive Committee; United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1961-1963.