Thirty-six years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, these declassified documents stand as testament to just how dangerously close the world came to nuclear destruction in 1962, and challenge the official history of the event as a model of crisis management. This collection of formerly secret records-including correspondence between John F. Kennedy, Nikita Krushchev, and Fidel Castro, as well as intelligence reports, minutes, and cables-provides a unique fly-on-the-wall view of the policy decisions and operations that brought ...
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Thirty-six years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, these declassified documents stand as testament to just how dangerously close the world came to nuclear destruction in 1962, and challenge the official history of the event as a model of crisis management. This collection of formerly secret records-including correspondence between John F. Kennedy, Nikita Krushchev, and Fidel Castro, as well as intelligence reports, minutes, and cables-provides a unique fly-on-the-wall view of the policy decisions and operations that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. The editors have provided a document-by-document account of the most important superpower confrontation of the twentieth century.
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Very Good Condition in Very Good jacket. Book. 9781565840195. VG HB in VG DJ, protected by mylar cover. xxvii, 415 p.; facim.; Bib. (pp. 401-415); 23 cm. Black cloth over boards with title blind stamped on the cover a gold title on spine. Crisp corners; a little bumping at the bottom of the spine. Extensive materials on the crisis featuring facsimiles of archive documents released under the Freedom of Information Act. Only defect is the highlighting of five entries in the Chronology that deal with Turkey's involvement. Size: Quarto (4to; up to 12" / 25-30 cm tall). 415 pages. Item Type: Book. Quantity Available: 1. Category: HISTORY; United States / 20th Century; Politics & Government. ISBN: 1565840194. ISBN/EAN: 9781565840195. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 309.
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Very good in Very good jacket. xxvii, [1], 415, [3] p. Map. Notes. Reproduced Documents. Selected Glossary. Chronology of Events. Bibliography. Some pages are in a two column format. Foreword by Robert S. McNamara. On the 30th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, newly released documents reveal how dangerously close the world came to nuclear destruction in 1962 and challenge the official history of the event as a model of crisis management. A valuable new resource for teachers, students, and millions of Americans who were never given the whole story. Employing newly released documents that reveal how close the world came to nuclear destruction in 1962, this look at the Cuban Missile Crisis challenges the official history of the event as a model of crisis management. Peter Kornbluh (born 1956) is a senior analyst at the National Security Archive and the director of the Chile Documentation Project and the Cuba Documentation Project. Kornbluh's National Security Archive work included efforts related to the U.S. government's historical foreign policy. He has contributed to the declassification of documents that offer insight into U.S. government's support for the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Kornbluh has authored and co-authored several publications. One of his significant works is The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, which compiles a selection of declassified documents related to U.S. policy in Chile from 1970 to 1990. He also co-authored the book Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana with William LeoGrande. More than thirty years after the world stared down what Kennedy Administration officials described as "the gun barrel of nuclear war, " we are still learning the secrets of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The National Security Archive's ground-breaking research and documentation of this near-nuclear confrontation is reflected in this book which combines formerly top secret presidential, Pentagon, and CIA documents, with contextual overviews, a comprehensive chronology of events, and biographies of the key U.S., Soviet, and Cuban players. The result is a document-by-document account of the most important superpower confrontation of the twentieth century. This collections of documents, which includes the recently declassified letters between John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, minutes of executive committee meetings during the crisis, and CIA planning papers to overthrow Fidel Castro, provides the reader with a unique fly-on-the-wall view of the decision-making process and operations that brought the world to the brink of self-destruction. "The work of Chang and Kornbluh and their colleagues at the National Security Archive has helped to revolutionize not merely our conception of the event--which now appears more complex and dangerous than before--but also our conception of how to conduct rigorous, responsible inquiry into our recent history, " writes James Blight, the nation's best known scholar on the missile crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, according to the Stanford Journal of International Affairs, "is a collection which students of the crisis, scholars of international relations, and even interested laymen should find fascinating and invaluable."
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book First edition, first printing, hardcover. Bl; ack cloth with gilt titles. xxvii, 415 pages. Acknowledgments, forward by Robert S. McNamara, selected glossary, the Cuban Missile Crisis: A Chronology of Events; Bibliography. Very good with head of spine and corners of front board lightly bumped, in a very good dust jacket with light edgewear at corners, including 3/8" tear to bottom corner of front panel, and short crease near top edge of front panel at spine. Mylar cover on jacket.
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Very good(+) in very good jacket. Many document facsimiles. xxvii + 415 pages, 4to, black cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: The New Press, 1992. First edition. A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.
