Volume 39, Number 4 · February 13, 1992
JFK's Big Moment
By George W. Ball
The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963
by Michael R. Beschloss
HarperCollins/Edward Burlingame Books, 816 pp., $29.95
Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Dino A. Brugioni
Random House, 599 pp., $35.00
The fading of the cold war makes it increasingly hard to write an objective review of Michael Beschloss's excellent book. In this day of quieter relations with Moscow not even the most talented writer can fully re-create the atmosphere of fear and imminent danger that pervaded Washington. All of us who worked in the postwar American administrations were aware that the Soviet leaders had the power to blow America off the face of the earth.
Review, 5823 words
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