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Thirteen Days : A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

ISBN: 9780393098969 | 0393098966
Format: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date: 1/1/1971

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SummaryTable of Contents
A resissue of the gripping and bestselling account of the perilous showdown between the United States and Soviet Union in 1962. Includes a new Foreword by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Forewordp. 7
"Tuesday morning, October 16, 1962"p. 19
"The President knew he would have to act."p. 26
"A majority opinion for a blockade"p. 34
"It was now up to one single man."p. 37
"The important meeting of the OAS"p. 45
"I met with Dobrynin"p. 50
"The danger was anything but over."p. 56
"There were almost daily communicati... MOREp. 61
"Expect very heavy casualties in an invasion."p. 65
"This would mean war."p. 70
"Those hours in the Cabinet Room"p. 76
"The President ordered the Ex Comm"p. 80
"Some of the things we learned"p. 85
"The importance of placing ourselves in the other country's shoes."p. 95
Afterwordp. 99
Documentsp. 147
A Short Bibliographyp. 175
Indexp. 177
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