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

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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Stern, Sheldon M. (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.
Series:	Stanford nuclear age series.
Subjects:	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.
Physical Description:	viii, 196 pages : illustrations.
Format:	Book