The Kennedy Tapes - Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis

"[A] splendid achievement, as powerful and exciting a book as one is likely to read this year...."--Barry Gewen, New York Times Book Review
"Gripping history."--Richard J. Tofel, Wall Street Journal
"[M]esmerizing. I was utterly fascinated....the best, fullest account of crisis yet and will remain so for decades to come."--Stephen E. Ambrose
"[A]s close as most people will ever get to being a fly on the wall during the discussions of leaders."--Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, James G. Blight

About the author

Ernest May is Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University.Philip D. Zelikow was executive director of the 9/11 Commission. He is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ernest May (Editor), Philip D Zelikow (Editor), Zelikow Philip D. (Editor)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.03.2002
• EAN: 9780393322590
• ISBN: 978-0-393-32259-0
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 871 g
• Illustrations: 20 photographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Cuba, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, International Relations, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Nuclear weapons, c 1960 to c 1969, War and defence operations, War & defence operations