High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Krushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

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One of the vital 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 disagreement.

Using his personal memories of covering the conflict, and gathering evidence from contemporary 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 america.

High Noon in the Cold War portrays an embattled young American presidentnot jaunty and callow as widely believed, but increasingly more calm and statesmanlikeand a Russian ruler who used to be not just a “wily old peasant” but an insecure belligerent desperate to reach credibility. Here, too, are forgotten heroes like John McCone, the conservative Republican CIA head whose intuition made him a a very powerful 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. must 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.

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