High Noon In The Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, And The Cuban Missile Crisis (Thorndike Press Large Print American History Series) - Hardcover

Frankel, Max

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786273429 ISBN 13: 9780786273423

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2005

Synopsis

High Noon in the Cold War captures the Cuban Missile Crisis in a new light, from inside the hearts and minds of the famous men who provoked and, in the nick of time, resolved the confrontation.

About this title

About the Author:

Max Frankel is one of America's preeminent journalists. He worked for the New York Times for 50 years, rising from college correspondent to reporter, Washington bureau chief, editorial page editor and ultimately executive editor from 1986-1994. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of President Nixon's trip to China in 1972. He wrote the nationally bestselling memoir The Times of My Life and My Life with the Times. He lives in New York City.

From the Inside Flap:

One of the giants of American journalism now re-creates an unforgettable time-in which the whole world feared extinction. "High Noon in the Cold War captures the Cuban Missile Crisis in a new light, from inside the hearts and minds of the famous men who provoked and, in the nick of time, resolved the confrontation.
Using his personal memories of covering the conflict, and gathering evidence from recent records and new scholarship and testimony, Max Frankel corrects widely held misconceptions about the game of "nuclear chicken" played by John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev in October 1962, when Soviet missiles were secretly planted in Cuba and aimed at the United States.
"High Noon in the Cold War portrays an embattled young American presidentnot jaunty and callow as widely believed, but increasingly calm and statesmanlikeand a Russian ruler who was not only a "wily old peasant" but an insecure belligerent desperate to achieve credibility. Here, too, are forgotten heroes like John McCone, the conservative Republican CIA head whose intuition made him a crucial figure in White House debates.
In detailing the disastrous miscalculations of the two superpowers (the U.S. thought the Soviets would never deploy missiles to Cuba; the Soviets thought the U.S. would have to acquiesce) and how Kennedy and Khrushchev beat back hotheads in their own councils, this fascinating book re-creates the "whole story of the scariest encounter of the Cold War, as told by a master reporter.

"From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0786273429
• ISBN 13: 9780786273423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328