03092nam 2200649Ia 450 991046234230332120200520144314.00-8047-8432-910.1515/9780804784320(CKB)2670000000258926(EBL)1011058(OCoLC)813004994(SSID)ssj0000757749(PQKBManifestationID)12297922(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757749(PQKBWorkID)10772167(PQKB)10140768(MiAaPQ)EBC1011058(DE-B1597)563679(DE-B1597)9780804784320(Au-PeEL)EBL1011058(CaPaEBR)ebr10608369(OCoLC)1198930288(EXLCZ)99267000000025892620120406d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Cuban Missile Crisis in American memory[electronic resource] myths versus reality /Sheldon M. SternStanford, California Stanford University Press20121 online resource (209 p.)Stanford Nuclear Age SeriesStanford nuclear age seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-8376-4 0-8047-8377-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThis 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.Stanford Nuclear Age SeriesCuban Missile Crisis, 1962HistoriographyUnited StatesForeign relationsSoviet UnionSoviet UnionForeign relationsUnited StatesUnited StatesForeign relations1961-1963Electronic books.Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962Historiography.972.9106/4Stern Sheldon M475589MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462342303321The Cuban Missile Crisis in American memory2468560UNINA