Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy, Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Foreword by)
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(Paperback - Reissue)
- Pub. Date: November 1999
- 192pp
- Sales Rank: 26,244
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: November 1999
- Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
- Format: Paperback, 192pp
- Sales Rank: 26,244
- ISBN-13: 9780393318340
- ISBN: 0393318346
- Edition Description: Reissue
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The true history behind the major motion picture Thirteen Days starring Kevin Costner.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, is a historian who served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy. Among his many works are the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Jackson and A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. He lives in New York City.
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisisby Anonymous
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March 06, 2008: This book should be required reading for highschool students, and if they haven't read it prior to voting for the first time, it should be required then. An entire political history course could be based on this gripping true story.
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January 03, 2006: This is a well drawn out memoir of the world's greatest crisis by one of the main participants of the crisis. Kennedy's prose is very simple, direct,shockingly confessional and quite on point. A refreshing side of this reflection compared to other political memoirs is that is intricately infused with a sense of humanitarian commitment, not for personal glory or tactical and ideological manifestos. Another facet about the book I found somewhat surprising is that Kennedy didn't really vilify anybody, including his enemies of Castro, Dean Rusk, or Khruschev. It shows just how close we were to the aura of Armageddon.
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