Ninety Miles from Midnight

In October 1962, for thirteen days, the world came closer to destroying itself than it ever has before or since. Everyone knows the story: a young president faced down the Soviet Union, refused his generals' demands to bomb, and forced Nikita Khrushchev to back away. Kennedy stared them down, and they blinked.Almost none of it is true.In Ninety Miles from Midnight, E.B Cohen tells the Cuban Missil...