Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory

"Marshals irrefutable evidence to succinctly demolish the mythic version of the crisis . . . sober analysis." —The AtlanticThis book exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two weeks of secret Cuban missile crisis deliberations.More than a half-century afte...