The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory

Myths versus Reality

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century
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Author: Sheldon M. Stern ISBN: 9780804784320
Publisher: Stanford University Press Publication: September 5, 2012
Imprint: Stanford University Press Language: English
Author: Sheldon M. Stern
ISBN: 9780804784320
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication: September 5, 2012
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Language: English

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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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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