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(0)Michael Sherman
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 329 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1963, President Kennedy gave the commencement address at the American University in Washington, DC. The Cuban Missile Crisis had forced him to reexamine the Cold War and his onetime foe Nikita Khrushchev. Those tense thirteen days in October 1962 had brought both leaders closer together as the world itself drew perilously close to nuclear war. JFK had pushed for direct contact with his Soviet counterpart and had a special hotline installed between...