- Foreign relations, History, New York Times reviewed, Cuba, history, 1959-
The Caribbean crises of the Cold War are presented in this story of clashing ideologies, the rise of the politics of fear, the machinations of superpowers, and the brazen daring of the mavericks who took them on.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Von Tunzelmann, Alex
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 477
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Henry Holt
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781847394590
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