John F Kennedy And The Missile Gap

Author : Christopher A. Preble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John F. Kennedy and the Missile Gap written by Christopher A. Preble and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitalizing on fear of nuclear war, months after Kennedy's inauguration he won Congressional authorization for two supplemental appropriations that increased the defense budget by more than 15 percent. This study of the political uses of an alleged threat to national security, argues that the missile gap was a myth.

Author : Sheldon M. Stern
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804748469
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Averting ‘The Final Failure’ written by Sheldon M. Stern and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of the ExComm meetings provides running commentary on the issues and options that were discussed, explaining in accessible terms their specific themes and the roles of individual participants while offering insight into how JFK steered policy makers away from a nuclear conflict. (History)

Author : Robert F. Kennedy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393341539
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis written by Robert F. Kennedy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A minor classic in its laconic, spare, compelling evocation by a participant of the shifting moods and maneuvers of the most dangerous moment in human history."—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 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 this unique account, he describes each of the participants during the sometimes hour-to-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions and views of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. In a new foreword, the distinguished historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., discusses the book's enduring importance and the significance of new information about the crisis that has come to light, especially from the Soviet Union.

Author : Robert Smith Thompson
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 : 9780671871765
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Missiles of October written by Robert Smith Thompson and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1993-09 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic reinterpretation of a seminal event of the Cold War--based on documents recently made available at the National Security Archive. Thompson recreates the hysterical anti-communist atmosphere of the early 1960s, shedding light on one of the darkest moments in recent history. Photos.

Author : Elie Abel
Publisher : Bantam Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Missile Crisis written by Elie Abel and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1968 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Kennedy's decisive action during the 1962 nuclear confrontation between Russia and the U.S. over missle sites in Cuba is chronicled.

Author : Robert F. Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349007528
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 13 Days written by Robert F. Kennedy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark J. White
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 1461713056
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missiles in Cuba written by Mark J. White and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. Mark White’s study adds an equally intense scrutiny of the causes and consequences of the crisis. Missiles in Cuba is based on up-to-date scholarship as well as Mr. White’s own findings in National Security Archive materials, Kennedy Library tapes of ExComm meetings, and correspondence between Soviet officials in Washington and Havana—all newly released. His more rounded picture gives us a much clearer understanding of the policy strategies pursued by the United States and the Soviet Union (and, to a lesser extent, Cuba) that brought on the crisis. His almost hour-by-hour account of the confrontation itself also destroys some venerable myths, such as the unique initiatives attributed to Robert Kennedy. And his assessment of the consequences of the crisis points to salutary effects on Soviet-American relation and on U.S. nuclear defense strategy, but questionable influences on Soviet defense spending and on Washington’s perception of its talents for "crisis management," later tested in Vietnam.

Author : John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cuban Missile Crisis written by John Fitzgerald Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey D. Sachs
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812994930
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Move the World written by Jeffrey D. Sachs and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring look at the historic foreign policy triumph of John F. Kennedy’s presidency—the crusade for world peace that consumed his final year in office—by the New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Civilization, Common Wealth, and The End of Poverty The last great campaign of John F. Kennedy’s life was not the battle for reelection he did not live to wage, but the struggle for a sustainable peace with the Soviet Union. To Move the World recalls the extraordinary days from October 1962 to September 1963, when JFK marshaled the power of oratory and his remarkable political skills to establish more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union and a dramatic slowdown in the proliferation of nuclear arms. Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, led their nations during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the two superpowers came eyeball to eyeball at the nuclear abyss. This near-death experience shook both leaders deeply. Jeffrey D. Sachs shows how Kennedy emerged from the Missile crisis with the determination and prodigious skills to forge a new and less threatening direction for the world. Together, he and Khrushchev would pull the world away from the nuclear precipice, charting a path for future peacemakers to follow. During his final year in office, Kennedy gave a series of speeches in which he pushed back against the momentum of the Cold War to persuade the world that peace with the Soviets was possible. The oratorical high point came on June 10, 1963, when Kennedy delivered the most important foreign policy speech of the modern presidency. He argued against the prevailing pessimism that viewed humanity as doomed by forces beyond its control. Mankind, argued Kennedy, could bring a new peace into reality through a bold vision combined with concrete and practical measures. Achieving the first of those measures in the summer of 1963, the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, required more than just speechmaking, however. Kennedy had to use his great gifts of persuasion on multiple fronts—with fractious allies, hawkish Republican congressmen, dubious members of his own administration, and the American and world public—to persuade a skeptical world that cooperation between the superpowers was realistic and necessary. Sachs shows how Kennedy campaigned for his vision and opened the eyes of the American people and the world to the possibilities of peace. Featuring the full text of JFK’s speeches from this period, as well as striking photographs, To Move the World gives us a startlingly fresh perspective on Kennedy’s presidency and a model for strong leadership and problem solving in our time. Praise for To Move the World “Rife with lessons for the current administration . . . We cannot know how many more steps might have been taken under Kennedy’s leadership, but To Move the World urges us to continue on the journey.”—Chicago Tribune “The messages in these four speeches seem all too pertinent today.”—Publishers Weekly

Author : Louise FitzSimons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kennedy Doctrine written by Louise FitzSimons and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: