Thirteen days : a memoir of the Cuban missile crisis / by Robert F. Kennedy ; foreword by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr by Kennedy, Robert F. (1925-1968). Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr. (1917-2007) - 1971

New York : W.W. Norton, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 185 p. ; 21 cm. Notes; ""Reissued in Norton paperback with a new foreword 1999""-- T.p. verso. ""Documents"": p. 149-174. Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-176) and index. Contents; Foreword / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- ""Tuesday morning, October 16, 1962"" -- ""The President knew he would have to act."" -- ""A majority opinion for a blockade"" -- ""It was now up to one single man."" -- ""The important meeting of the OAS"" -- ""I met with Dobrynin"" -- ""The danger was anything but over."" -- ""There were almost daily communications with Khrushchev."" -- ""Expect very heavy casualties in an invasion."" -- ""This would mean war."" -- ""Those hours in the Cabinet Room"" -- ""The President ordered the Ex Comm"" -- ""Some of the things we learned"" -- ""The importance of placing ourselves in the other country's shoes."" -- Afterword / Richard E. Neustadt, Graham T. Allison. Subjects; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963). Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Military bases, Soviet - Cuba. Kubakrise. Military bases, Soviet. Military bases, Russian - Cuba United States - Foreign relations - Soviet Union. Soviet Union - Foreign relations - United States. United States - Foreign relations - Cuba. Cuba - Foreign relations - United States. Genre; Bibliography.