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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis, By Robert F. Kennedy (185 pages) Brief Summary. Cuba, the West Indies island ninety miles off Florida, was first of interest to the United States in the 19th Century. After being of interest to the slaveholding states in antebellum years, Cuba became the center of the Spanish American War in ...
G.K. Hall, 2001 - History - 208 pages. 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 new foreword, the distinguished historian and Kennedy adviser ...
26. Sept. 2011 · Robert Kennedy : a memoir by Newfield, Jack. Publication date 1988 Topics Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968, United States. Congress. Senate, Legislators Publisher New York : New American Library Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled ...
15. Mai 2018 · Independent Catholic NewsIn this powerful book that combines the best aspects of memoir and political history, the third child of Attorney General Robert Kennedy and nephew of JFK takes us on an intimate journey through his life, including watershed moments in the history of our nation. Stories of his grandparents Joseph and Rose set the stage ...
W. W. Norton, 1969 - Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 - 224 pages. 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 ...
Written by a journalist with an astute understanding of politics and current events, Jack Newfield’s absorbing memoir covers his time spent with Robert Kennedy the senator and presidential candidate. One of the best on RFK I’ve read. 4.5* (The paperback edition features a hauntingly beautiful photo taken by F. McDarrah, making it also one of my favorite covers.)
The latter is described in Thirteen Days, Robert F. Kennedy’s brief memoir of the Cuban missile crisis (which was unfinished when he was assassinated in 1968). As hopes for a peaceful resolution faded, JFK asked RFK -- the president’s brother and closest confidante as well as the U.S. Attorney General -- to talk to Anatoly Dobrynin, the Soviet ambassador in Washington.
