Maximum danger : Kennedy, the missiles, and the crisis of american confidence /

Weisbrot, Robert,

Maximum danger : Kennedy, the missiles, and the crisis of american confidence / Robert Weisbrot; acknowledgments Maine Waterville. - Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2001. - viii-275 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p.219-258) and index.

Rethinking the Cuban missile crisis-- Cold war alarms and the 1960 campaign-- The new frontier under siege-- "We just had to get them out of there": Why missiles in Cuba triggered a crisis-- The decision to blockade-- Kennedy's hidden concession- to public opinion.

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Kennedy, John F. ( John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.


Crisis de los misiles cubanos, 1962


Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
United States--Politics and government--1961-1963
United States--Foreign relations--1961-1963
Estados Unidos--Política y gobierno--1961-1963
Estados Unidos--Relaciones internacionales--1961-1963

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