Averting 'The Final Failure': John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings

by Sheldon Stern and Sheldon M. Stern

Book Overview

The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and the most perilous moment in human history. Sheldon M. Stern, longtime historian at the John F. Kennedy Library, here presents a comprehensive narrative account of the secret ExComm meetings, making the inside story of the missile crisis completely understandable to general readers for the first time. The author's narrative version of these discussions is entirely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804748462
• ISBN13: 9780804748469
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.4"