- Foreign relations, Soviet Military bases, Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, History
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.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Robert F. Kennedy
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 200
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, New American Library, Signet
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780451622976
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“ON TUESDAY MORNING, October 1962, shortly after 9:00, President Kennedy called and asked me to come to the White House.”
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