Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

by KENNEDY,ROBERT F.

• ISBN13: 9780393318340
• ISBN10: 0393318346
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780393341539
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780393098969
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-11-17
• Publisher: W W NORTON
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Summary

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 this unique account, he describes the hour-by-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions and views of his brother, President John F. Kennedy.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(12)
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
``Tuesday morning, October 16, 1962...''	19	(7)
``The President...knew he would have to act.''	26	(8)
``A majority opinion...for a blockade...''	34	(3)
``It was now up to one single man.''	37	(8)
``The important meeting of the OAS...''	45	(5)
``I met with Dobrynin...''	50	(6)
``The danger was anything but over.''	56	(5)
``There were almost daily communications with Khrushchev.''	61	(4)
``Expect very heavy casualties in an invasion.''	65	(5)
``This would mean war.''	70	(6)
``Those hours in the Cabinet Room...''	76	(4)
``The President ordered the Ex Comm...''	80	(5)
``Some of the things we learned...''	85	(10)
``The importance of placing ourselves in the other country's shoes.''	95	(4)
Afterword	99	(48)
Richard E. Neustadt
Graham T. Allison
Documents	147	(28)
A Short Bibliography	175	(2)
Index	177