The Cuban Missile Crisis in American memory [[electronic resource] ] : myths versus reality / / Sheldon M. Stern

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462342303321
• Autore: Stern Sheldon M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 0-8047-8432-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Collana: Stanford Nuclear Age Series; Stanford nuclear age series
• Disciplina: 972.9106/4
• Soggetti: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 - Historiography; Electronic books.; United States Foreign relations Soviet Union; Soviet Union Foreign relations United States; United States Foreign relations 1961-1963
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; 1. History: From Reel to Real; 2. The Template: Robert F. Kennedy's Thirteen Days; 3. The Real Robert Kennedy; 4. The Mythmaking of Robert McNamara; 5. The Forgotten Voice of Dean Rusk; 6. The Erratic Expertise of Llewellyn Thompson; 7. The Selective Memory of McGeorge Bundy; 8. The Determined Diplomacy of Adlai Stevenson; 9. The Trollope Ploy Myth; 10. Lyndon Johnson and the Missile Crisis: An Unanticipated Consequence?; Conclusion: Leadership Matters; Epilogue: What If?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.