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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...

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Основен автор: Stern, Sheldon.
Формат: Електронен
Език: English
Публикувано: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012.
Серия: Stanford nuclear age series.
Предмети:
National Security Council (U.S.). > Executive Committee.
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
1961-1963
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 > Historiography.
National Security Council (U.S.). Executive Committee.
Soviet Union > Foreign Relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > 1961-1963.
United States > Foreign Relations > Soviet Union.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Diplomatic relations.
Historiography.
United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States.
Soviet Union.
United States > .
Electronic books.
Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=713554
Съдържание:
  • 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 missile crisis : an unanticipated consequence?
  • Conclusion : leadership matters
  • Epilogue : What if?

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