Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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. more

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Posted: Sep-12-2009

Thirteen Days: Cuban Missile Crisis, by Robert Kennedy

Read the book several years ago and was convinced that the Russian ships turned around because theywere carrying the nuclear warheads that the Cuban Missiles were lacking. US had would have fired on themhad they not turned around! I am rereading the book to again familiarize myself with the...

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Posted: Sep-05-2009

Enjoyable

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...

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Posted: Apr-12-2009

Narrow Escape

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...

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Posted: Dec-24-2008

Anatomy of a Supreme Crisis.....

"Thirteen Days" is Robert F. Kennedy's enthralling memoir of the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, during which the United States under President Kennedy and the Soviet Union under Chairman Khrushchev came breathtakingly close to nuclear war. At issue was the clandestine placement of Soviet...

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Posted: Oct-26-2008

Essential study material for all who aspire to be U. S. president

There are many things that a U. S. president must know and much of that comes from documents about the past. Two of the most important documents are "The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman and this book by Robert Kennedy. Tuchman's book is a fascinating account of how what should have been a...

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Posted: Aug-03-2008

We were in the middle of it

As a Cuban refugee I was training for a job in Key West when the Cuban Missile Crisis ocurred. I was twenty years old, my wife nineteen and our baby three months old.The narrow bridge that connects the mainland to Key West was closed to civilian traffic. Hundreds of missile launchers were...

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Posted: Jul-30-2008

On the precipice of annihilation

Having just finished reading "The Last Campaign" by Thurston Clarke about RFK's 1968 presidential campaign, I decided to read "Thirteen Days". I bought some other books about the Cuban Missile Crisis, but wanted RFK's memoir and perspective about the situation before reading more current...

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Posted: Apr-09-2008

Inside look at critical inclusive decision making

Robert Kennedy's memoir gives not only a fascinating insight to this critical episode, but it serves as a paradigm for crisis management. The brevity of this book is a plus, as it can be an entry into both this critical moment in history as well in decision making for those without the time to...

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Posted: Dec-04-2007

AS WE APPROACH IN HALF A YEAR THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS FBI ASSASSINATION LET US RECALL WHEN WISDOM AND DIPLOMACY RULED

Here we have in Robert Kennedy's own account how the world kept out of annihilating nuclear warfare nearly a half century ago, rather than the current highly profitable rushes to war with untold, uncounted millions of innocent victims these past few decades.Here we can read how true, wise,...

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Posted: Sep-12-2007

first-hand-account, fast-paced, fascinating

Read up on one of the most terrifying moments in history, the near destruction of the world by nuclear holocaust. This quick read takes you inside the White House where policy makers decided how best to react to the Soviet Union's establishing a nuclear missile base on the island of Cuba. This is...

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