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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis |  | Author: Robert F. Kennedy
Creator: Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 15111
Media: Paperback
Pages: 185
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0393318346
Dewey Decimal Number: 327.73047
EAN: 9780393318340
ASIN: 0393318346
Publication Date: November 1999
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The unique, gripping account of the perilous showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In a clear and simple record, he describes the personalities involved in the crisis, with particular attention to the actions and attitudes of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. He describes the daily, even hourly, exchanges between Russian representatives and American. In firsthand immediacy we see the frightening responsibility of two great nations holding the fate of the world in their hands.
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 Very well wriiten book and a great trueful look at that trying crisis April 18, 2010
A. Ballard (Fortuna,ca)
Robert Kennedy never got a chance to add to his furst draft of the manuscript becuase he wrote this book shortly before his death, but what he did get a chance to write was very insightful of himself, then men in the ex-comm meetings and the president. As well as human nature, it also shows what it really must take to be a good president - to be pateinet and not let the armed forces bully you into imidate warish actions without- by looking at all avenues and consequences that could comes from each step of the process. This is a must have book to add to your collection.
Facinating, quick memoir January 18, 2010
Matthew Wilson (USA)
Thirteen Days is a fascinating look at the decision-making behind JFK's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis. RFK writes about the sequence of events, the reactions of the President's advisers, and the rationales for the actions the President took.
It made me appreciate the weighty decisions any President faces, and it made me appreciate the value of cool heads and debate during a time of crisis.
This is a short book and a quick read. It's a first-person account, not an unbiased history - so don't expect it to be something it's not.
Thirteen Days: Cuban Missile Crisis, by Robert Kennedy September 12, 2009
Cora Jacobson
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Read the book several years ago and was convinced that the Russian ships turned around because they
were carrying the nuclear warheads that the Cuban Missiles were lacking. US had would have fired on them
had they not turned around! I am rereading the book to again familiarize myself with the US-Cuban episode.
Success in foreign policy is not a given. This book tells us a lot in 174 pages.
Enjoyable September 5, 2009
rbnn (Berkeley, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well-written, exciting, interesting tale of an interesting time. Writing is laconic but full of meaning. Extremely interesting historical analysis and discussion of the division of power between the executive and the legislative branches.
I am not a historian and cannot speak to the absolute accuracy of the contents - but it was a lot of fun to read, and certainly captured the spirit of the times.
Narrow Escape April 12, 2009
Aaron R. Hammond (Kankakee, IL)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The tale that Robert Kennedy lays down in Thirteen Days is a nail-biting modern thriller. It is difficult to imagine the state of the nation, and of the world, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The two greatest powers were ever at odds with each other, bubbling up into a dramatic crescendo. What would happen when the ships were told to halt outside of Cuba? Would the U.S.S.R. deliberately attack United States vessels and, ultimately, the mainland with nuclear weapons?
It is only with the gift of retrospection that we now know that it was by the diplomatic efforts of President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and the myriad of others present in countless meetings held during the crisis that certain destruction was thwarted. The fact that so many individuals sought to promote all-out war and mutually assured destruction is an eye-opener to the chaos that nearly transpired. The sheer audacity that the Soviets had to first deny that platforms and warheads were being constructed, then that they were not to be used offensively, clearly identifies the madness that consumed them. They behaved as a child would when interrogated by a parent for a wrongdoing. The parent knows what is going on but the child, in an almost belligerent tone, acts as the Soviets did. Thus it was with a steady hand that President Kennedy punished the child, and the Soviets were driven to return back to their side of the playpen.
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