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Thirteen days : a memoir of the Cuban missile crisis
Record details
- ISBN: 0393318346
- ISBN: 9780393318340
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Physical Description:
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185 pages ; 21 cm - Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 1999, ©1971.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Reissued in Norton paperback with a new foreword 1999"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | "Documents": pages 149-174. Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- "Tuesday morning, October 16, 1962" -- "The President knew he would have to act." -- "A majority opinion for a blockade" -- "It was now up to one single man." -- "The important meeting of the OAS" -- "I met with Dobrynin" -- "The danger was anything but over." -- "There were almost daily communications with Khrushchev." -- "Expect very heavy casualties in an invasion." -- "This would mean war." -- "Those hours in the Cabinet Room" -- "The President ordered the Ex Comm" -- "Some of the things we learned" -- "The importance of placing ourselves in the other country's shoes." -- Afterword / Richard E. Neustadt, Graham T. Allison. |
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| Subject: | Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 United States Foreign relations Soviet Union Soviet Union Foreign relations United States Military bases, Soviet Cuba |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | E 183.8 .R8 K46 1999 | 30775305524432 | General Collection | Available | - |