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The Cuban Missile Crisis
Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis happen? How was it resolved? By focusing on the roles of a number of key individuals, such as JFK, Robert Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, and by using recently declassified materials, this book frames answers to these questions. In so doing, it presents a cluster of new findings and arguments, including a fresh interpretation of Khrushchev's motives for putting missiles in Cuba, new information on the mystery surrounding Senator Kenneth Keating's secret sources, and evidence indicating that JFK planned to carry out a military strike on Cuba at the start of the crisis.
Missiles in Cuba
For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. Mark White’s study adds an equally intense scrutiny of the causes and consequences of the crisis. Missiles in Cuba is based on up-to-date scholarship as well as Mr. White’s own findings in National Security Archive materials, Kennedy Library tapes of ExComm meetings, and correspondence between Soviet officials in Washington and Havana—all newly released. His more rounded picture gives us a much clearer understanding of the policy strategies pursued by the United States and the Soviet Union (and, to a lesser extent, Cuba) that brought on the crisis. His almost hour-by-hour account of the confrontation itself also destroys some venerable myths, such as the unique initiatives attributed to Robert Kennedy. And his assessment of the consequences of the crisis points to salutary effects on Soviet-American relation and on U.S. nuclear defense strategy, but questionable influences on Soviet defense spending and on Washington’s perception of its talents for "crisis management," later tested in Vietnam.
Against the President
"With a historian's insight, Mr. White explores the arguments of Harry Hopkins and Joseph Davies to Truman on the knotty postwar problem of Poland; of Henry Wallace on relations with Russia during the same administration; of Charles Wilson on the origins of the Vietnam War under Eisenhower; of Adlai Stevenson on Cuba during the Kennedy years; and of George Ball on Vietnam under Lyndon Johnson." "Altogether Mr. White fashions a provocative interpretation of America's role in the cold war and a number of questions about the potential effectiveness of policies that might have been. The relevance of his findings to today's situation in Iraq, and to the absence of dissent on official policy within the Bush administration, need scarcely be more apparent."--Jacket.
Kenneth Branagh
Based on extensive research in previously untapped archival materials and on numerous interviews, White traces the vicissitudes of Kenneth Branagh's career, examining his meteoric rise and the backlash that accompanied it.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Professor White's scholarly account is the closes we have yet come to the full story of the Cuban missile crisis. ... This is the most intimate and authoritative view available. Herbert S. Parmet, Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York A masterful history of the events and of the crisis managers who shaped American policy at a crucial juncture. It is a story with grave implications for great power leaders everywhere.Warren F. Kimball, Robert Treat Professor of History, Rutgers University One of the most written about and discussed foreign policy events in American history, the Cuban Missile Crisis has been viewed as both a foreign policy triumph and a disaster in the...
Kennedy: The New Frontier Revisited
Leading Kennedy scholars along with a group of younger historians have mined recently declassified documentation in order to re-examine many of the key issues surrounding JFK's time in the White House: Vietnam, Cuban missile crisis, Berlin crisis, space race, and others. Rejecting the idolatry and bitterness evident in so many previous works on JFK, this study adopts an evenhanded, eclectic approach. The result is a less caricatured, more compelling view of the Kennedy presidency.
Quaternary of the Trent
This volume is an integrated overview and synthesis of available data relating to the Quaternary evolution of the River Trent. It provides detailed descriptions of the Pleistocene sedimentary records from the Trent, its tributaries and related drainage systems - a sedimentary record that spans a period of approximately half a million years - and the biostratigraphical and archaeological material preserved therein. Significant new data are presented from recently discovered sites of geological and archaeological importance, including previously unrecognised fluvial deposits, as well as novel analyses, such as mathematical modelling of fluvial incision as recorded by the river terrace deposits...
The Kennedys and Cuba
In this intriguing collection of documents, drawn from the State Department, the Kennedy Library, private papers, and the Assassination Records Review Board, and including newly released materials, Mark White traces the attitudes and actions of the Kennedys in their fateful obsession with Castro and Cuba. "Full of fascinating information."--Mary Carroll, Booklist.
Fifty Years On
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The Presidency of Bill Clinton
Grappling with the governorship : the fall and rise of Bill Clinton / Brian S. Miller -- Vicissitudes : 1992 and the road to the White House / Mark White -- A new democrat's new economics / Iwan Morgan -- Found and lost : a third way on health care / Alex Waddan -- The clarion call, the muted trumpet, the lasting impact : gay rights / Kevan M. Yenerall -- The Clinton character conundrum / Michael A. Genovese -- Diplomacy in Northern Ireland : successful pragmatic international engagement / John Dumbrell -- The aerial war in Kosovo / Elpida Katsavara -- Courting the Hollywood film industry / Mark Wheeler.
