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.
Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings (2003), and The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (2005), both in the Stanford University Press Nuclear Age Series..
Stern is the author of Averting the Final Failure: John F.
He was the first non-member of the Ex Comm, as well as the first historian, to listen to and evaluate all the secret White House tape recordings made during the 1962 Cuban Missile crisis.
Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts from 1977 to 2000. history at the college level for more than a decade before becoming historian at the John F.
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Stern taught U.
About the Author: Sheldon M.
A half-century after the event it is surely time to demonstrate, once and for all, that RFK\'s Thirteen Days and the personal memoirs of other Ex Comm members cannot be taken seriously as historically accurate accounts of the Ex Comm meetings.
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
