Here are five of the best books about the Cuban Missile Crisis, selected by José Azel, the author of “On Freedom: 100 Essays”
This eyewitness account by Robert F. Kennedy, then the U.S. attorney general and adviser to his brother, President John F. Kennedy, emphasizes the human side of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Published the year after Robert Kennedy’s assassination, the memoir meant to burnish JFK’s reputation, which had been damaged by the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961.
Curtis LeMay argued for a pre-emptive attack on Cuba. Would that have resulted in a Soviet retaliatory attack on Berlin? Would any side have resorted to using nuclear weapons? Both Kennedy and Khrushchev are seen as leaders who, acting rationally, ultimately chose peace over military conflict.Many misconceptions and falsehoods about the crisis are corrected here. President Nixon wasn’t the only one who recorded his White House conversations; President Kennedy did, too.
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