Stern, Sheldon M., author.
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]
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Part of the series Stanford nuclear age series;Stanford nuclear age series.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-188) and index.
• History : from reel to real — The template : Robert F. Kennedy’s Thirteen days — The real Robert Kennedy — The mythmaking of Robert McNamara — The forgotten voice of Dean Rusk — The erratic expertise of Llewellyn Thompson — The selective memory of McGeorge Bundy — The determined diplomacy of Adlai Stevenson — The Trollope ploy myth — Lyndon Johnson and the Cuban Missile Crisis : an unanticipated consequence? — Conclusion : Leadership matters — Epilogue : What if?

Subjects:

• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 — Historiography.
• National Security Council (U.S.). Executive Committee.
• United States — Foreign relations — Soviet Union.
• Soviet Union — Foreign relations — United States.
• United States — Foreign relations — 1961-1963.

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