Volume 12, Number 5 · March 13, 1969
Endgame
By Ronald Steel
Thirteen Days
by Robert F. Kennedy, with Introductions by Harold Macmillan, by Robert S. McNamara
Norton, 224 pp., $5.95
It was a time, in Khrushchev's memorable phrase, 'when the smell of burning hung in the air.' Robert Kennedy's account of those thirteen days in 1962 from October 16, when he and his brother were presented with proof that the Russians were secretly building long-range missile bases in Cuba, until October 28, when the Kremlin agreed to dismantle them—shows the view from the inside by one of the key participants. Written with economy and directness, Thirteen Days is a valuable historical document with all the elements of a thriller.
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