LEADER 03058nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910785728403321 005 20230801224738.0 010 $a0-8047-8432-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804784320 035 $a(CKB)2670000000258926 035 $a(EBL)1011058 035 $a(OCoLC)813004994 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000757749 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12297922 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757749 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10772167 035 $a(PQKB)10140768 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1011058 035 $a(DE-B1597)563679 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804784320 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1011058 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10608369 035 $a(OCoLC)1198930288 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000258926 100 $a20120406d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Cuban Missile Crisis in American memory$b[electronic resource] $emyths versus reality /$fSheldon M. Stern 210 $aStanford, California $cStanford University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (209 p.) 225 0 $aStanford Nuclear Age Series 225 0$aStanford nuclear age series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-8376-4 311 $a0-8047-8377-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aThis book exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two weeks of secret Cuban missile crisis deliberations. A half-century after the event it is surely time to demonstrate, once and for all, that RFK's Thirteen Days and the personal memoirs of other ExComm members cannot be taken seriously as historically accurate accounts of the ExComm meetings. 410 0$aStanford Nuclear Age Series 606 $aCuban Missile Crisis, 1962$xHistoriography 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zSoviet Union 607 $aSoviet Union$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1961-1963 615 0$aCuban Missile Crisis, 1962$xHistoriography. 676 $a972.9106/4 700 $aStern$b Sheldon M$0475589 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785728403321 996 $aThe Cuban Missile Crisis in American memory$93774163 997 $aUNINA