The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory Myths Versus Reality.
This book exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two weeks of secret Cuban missile crisis deliberations. A half-century after the event it is surely time to...
Основен автор: | Stern, Sheldon. |
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Формат: | Електронен |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2012.
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Серия: |
Stanford nuclear age series.
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Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=713554 |
Резюме: |
This book exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two weeks of secret Cuban missile crisis deliberations. A half-century after the event it is surely time to demonstrate, once and for all, that RFK's Thirteen Days and the personal memoirs of other ExComm members cannot be taken seriously as historically accurate accounts of the ExComm meetings. |
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Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (209 pages). |
Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9780804784320 0804784329 |