Thirteen Days

Robert F. Kennedy's Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis is a short book with spare prose, but it’s not unemotional; the gravity of the situation pulls you right in. You feel as if you were there in the White House in October 1962, deliberating, trying desperately to figure out how to prevent full-scale nuclear war. This book reveals how they did it.

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