The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths versus Reality

"Marshals irrefutable evidence to succinctly demolish the mythic version of the crisis . . . sober analysis." —The Atlantic

This book exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two weeks of secret Cuban missile crisis deliberations.

More than a half-century after the event, it is surely time to demonstrate, once and for all, that Robert F. Kennedy's T...