High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.(Book Review)

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High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushehev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. By Max Frankel. New York: Ballantine, 2004. 206 pages. $23.95.

Max Frankel's monograph on the 1962 Cuban missile crisis adds another entry to a very long bibliography. Frankel is a distinguished American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent who covered the missile crisis as a reporter for The New York Times in Washington. To that personal experience he has added a familiarity with the constantly expanding literature on the crisis, as well as what he describes as ...

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