The Crisis Years (ePub)
Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963
(Sprache: Englisch)
The groundbreaking and revelatory tale of the most dangerous years of the Cold War and the two leaders who held the fate of the world in their hands.
This bestselling history takes us into the tumultuous period from 1960 through 1963 when the Berlin...
This bestselling history takes us into the tumultuous period from 1960 through 1963 when the Berlin...
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The groundbreaking and revelatory tale of the most dangerous years of the Cold War and the two leaders who held the fate of the world in their hands.
This bestselling history takes us into the tumultuous period from 1960 through 1963 when the Berlin Wall was built and the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States and Soviet Union to the abyss. In this compelling narrative, author Michael Beschloss, praised by Newsweek as "the nation's leading Presidential historian," draws on declassified American documents and interviews with Kennedy aides and Soviet sources to reveal the inner workings of the CIA, Pentagon, White House, KGB, and politburo, and show us the complex private relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
Beschloss discards previous myths to show how the miscalculations and conflicting ambitions of those leaders caused a nuclear confrontation that could have killed tens of millions of people. Among the cast of characters are Robert Kennedy, Robert McNamara, Adlai Stevenson, Fidel Castro, Willy Brandt, Leonid Brezhnev, and Andrei Gromyko. The Bay of Pigs invasion, the Vienna Summit, the Berlin Crisis, and what followed are rendered with urgency and intimacy as the author puts these dangerous years in the context of world history.
"Impressively researched and engrossingly narrated" (Los Angeles Times), The Crisis Years brings to vivid life a crucial epoch in a book that David Remnick of the New Yorker has called the "definitive" history of John F. Kennedy and the Cold War.
This bestselling history takes us into the tumultuous period from 1960 through 1963 when the Berlin Wall was built and the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States and Soviet Union to the abyss. In this compelling narrative, author Michael Beschloss, praised by Newsweek as "the nation's leading Presidential historian," draws on declassified American documents and interviews with Kennedy aides and Soviet sources to reveal the inner workings of the CIA, Pentagon, White House, KGB, and politburo, and show us the complex private relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
Beschloss discards previous myths to show how the miscalculations and conflicting ambitions of those leaders caused a nuclear confrontation that could have killed tens of millions of people. Among the cast of characters are Robert Kennedy, Robert McNamara, Adlai Stevenson, Fidel Castro, Willy Brandt, Leonid Brezhnev, and Andrei Gromyko. The Bay of Pigs invasion, the Vienna Summit, the Berlin Crisis, and what followed are rendered with urgency and intimacy as the author puts these dangerous years in the context of world history.
"Impressively researched and engrossingly narrated" (Los Angeles Times), The Crisis Years brings to vivid life a crucial epoch in a book that David Remnick of the New Yorker has called the "definitive" history of John F. Kennedy and the Cold War.
Autoren-Porträt von Michael Beschloss
Michael Beschloss is a historian and the New York Times-bestselling author of nine books, including Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance (1980); Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair (1986); The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963 (1991); The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany (2002); and Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989 (2007). Born in Chicago and educated at Williams College and Harvard University, Beschloss is a contributor to NBC News, PBS NewsHour, and the New York Times, and has been called "the nation's leading presidential historian" by Newsweek. He lives with his wife in Washington, DC.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michael Beschloss
- 2016, 818 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- ISBN-10: 1504039378
- ISBN-13: 9781504039376
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.08.2016
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“Impressively researched and engrossingly narrated . . . Beschloss has made a major contribution to our understanding of the Kennedy presidency. Even better, he has put it in the form of a page-turning narrative that is both dramatically gripping and intellectually engaging . . . Invaluable to historians and fascinating to the general reader.” —Ronald Steel, Los Angeles Times“A groundbreaking history of the Kennedy administration . . . Mr. Beschloss’s many eye-opening interviews with participants in the crisis years, his persistence in the hunt for documentation and for oral histories have produced a magisterial volume.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Searching, scholarly, and, above all, dramatic: Beschloss revives the suspense of a four-year period when no one knew whether Soviet-American quarrels would end in battle.” —Naomi Bliven, The New Yorker
“Michael Beschloss, the leading diplomatic historian of his generation, has written what is easily the best book on Kennedy and the Cold War. . . . A masterly recounting of events that have been distorted with time.” —Chicago Tribune
“Superb . . . Beschloss makes excellent use of newly declassified government documents, post-glasnost admissions by Soviet officials, and interviews with their American counterparts. . . . History as it ought to be written—exhaustively researched, revelatory, graceful, and, despite our knowledge of the outcome, even thrilling.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“Beschloss expands our knowledge and understanding of Soviet decision-making. . . . An exciting and informative narrative that will appeal to a wide readership.” —Publishers Weekly
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