The Cuban Missile Crisis

by M. White

Overview

Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis happen? How was it resolved? By focusing on the roles of a number of key individuals, such as JFK, Robert Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, and by using recently declassified materials, this book frames answers to these questions. In so doing, it presents a cluster of new findings and arguments, including a fresh interpretation of Khrushchev's motives for putting missiles in Cuba, new information on the mystery surrounding Senator Kenneth Keating's secret sources, and evidence indicating that JFK planned to carry out a military strike on Cuba at the start of the crisis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333630525
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/20/1995
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	291
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mark J. White is Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University. He is the author of The Cuban Missile Crisis, also available from NYU Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - Introduction - Approaching Camelot: John F. Kennedy and the Tools of a New Frontiersman - Kennedy's Cuban Policies: Misconceptions and Missed Opportunities - Nikita Khrushchev and the Decision to Deploy - The Fall Offensive of Senator Keating - Belligerent Beginnings: JFK on the Opening Day - The Battle for Blockade: Robert Kennedy versus Dean Acheson - Adlai Stevenson: Hamlet in New York - Denouement - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index