Blind over Cuba [[electronic resource] ] : the photo gap and the missile crisis / / David M. Barrett & Max Holland
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| Autore: |
Barrett David M. <1951->
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| Titolo: |
Blind over Cuba [[electronic resource] ] : the photo gap and the missile crisis / / David M. Barrett & Max Holland
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| Pubblicazione: | College Station [Tex.], : Texas A&M University Press, c2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973.922 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 |
| Intelligence service - Political aspects - United States | |
| Executive-legislative relations - United States | |
| National security - Political aspects - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Politics and government 1961-1963 |
| Altri autori: |
HollandMax
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The making of a "photo gap": August 29 to October 14, 1962 -- Obscuring the photo gap -- The struggle over the postmortems -- Stonewalling the House -- The Senate steps in -- Tensions within the Kennedy administration: fashioning a unified story -- End of the trail: the "interim" report -- The costs of managed history -- Appendix: a historiography of the photo gap, 1963-2011. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, questions persisted about how the potential cataclysm had been allowed to develop. A subsequent congressional investigation focused on what came to be known as the "photo gap": five weeks during which intelligence-gathering flights over Cuba had been attenuated. In Blind over Cuba, David M. Barrett and Max Holland challenge the popular perception of the Kennedy administration's handling of the Soviet Union's surreptitious deployment of missiles in the Western Hemisphere. Rather than epitomizing it as a masterpiece of crisis man |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Blind over Cuba |
| ISBN: | 1-283-58424-7 |
| 9786613896698 | |
| 1-60344-772-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785548303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Foreign relations and the presidency ; ; no. 11.