Nineteen Days A Memoir Of The Cuban Missile Crisis

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert Kennedy is a book that details those almost fateful 13 days in October of 1962 that could have resulted in the destruction of mankind. Robert Kennedy was the brother of President John F. Kennedy; he served as the United States Attorney General and â€Å"closest cabinet advisor and confidant† during JFK’s presidential administration. The book sets out to provide you detail of just how difficult of a decision the president was tasked with regard to the missiles that Russia was placing in Cuba. It details the difficulty that the Executive Committee was tasked with. The decision whether to invade Cuba in a full on air strike or whether they should establish a blockade, preventing the Russians from placing any additional nuclear weapons on Cuban soil. The book received a new introduction in Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. was born in Columbus, Ohio on October 15, 1917 in Ohio. He was a graduate of Harvard University, class of 1938 at the age of 20. He immediately began work on his thesis, which he completed one year following the completion on his bachelor’s degree. Schlesinger was appointed to the Harvard history department alongside his dad, following the success of his novel The Age of Jackson. During World War II he served in the U.S. governments Office of War Information as. Schlesinger was fairly active in politics, not following much after his father, a well-known historian, of the 1920s and 1930s, at Harvard University.Show MoreRelatedThe Shrike Was The World s First Dedicated Anti Radiation Missile1765 Words   |  8 Pages The Shrike was the world’s first dedicated anti-radiation missile. Based upon the AIM-7 Sparrow air-air missile, the Shrike incorporated a new guidance system which allowed it to home onto rad ar systems such as the Fan Song that was used with the SA-2. As Weasel Don Kilgus recalls, the Shrike changed the nature of the mission because it allowed the Weasels to attack SAM sites from afar and with a greater probability of disabling the target. The Shrike was not without limitations. Relatively shortRead MoreOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 Pagescentury, emerging contemporaneously with increased integration and mobility. Delimiting physical space, turning it into â€Å"territory,† and establishing institutions of population management have been constant objectives of these polities. The early days of this international system in the mid-nineteenth century, however, were a heyday of liberal and laissez-faire mobility marked by a decline of coerced labor and many mobility controls. By the 1860s, most European nations had dropped their exit, domestic