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

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Stanford nuclear age series.
Main Author: Stern, Sheldon M. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]
Series:Stanford nuclear age series.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2012 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2012 (EBSCO)
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2012 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths Versus Reality
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • 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?