The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory
eBook - ePub

The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory

Myths versus Reality

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory

Myths versus Reality

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Series Page
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. 1. History: From Reel to Real
  8. 2. The Template: Robert F. Kennedy’s Thirteen Days
  9. 3. The Real Robert Kennedy
  10. 4. The Mythmaking of Robert McNamara
  11. 5. The Forgotten Voice of Dean Rusk
  12. 6. The Erratic Expertise of Llewellyn Thompson
  13. 7. The Selective Memory of McGeorge Bundy
  14. 8. The Determined Diplomacy of Adlai Stevenson
  15. 9. The Trollope Ploy Myth
  16. 10. Lyndon Johnson and the Missile Crisis: An Unanticipated Consequence?
  17. Conclusion: Leadership Matters
  18. Epilogue: What If?
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index