Theodore C Sorensen
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
xvi, 556 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history.... from the decision to go to the moon to the Cuban Missile Crisis, when JFK requested that the thirty-four-year-old Sorensen draft the key letter to Khrushchev at the most critical point of the world's first nuclear confrontation. After Kennedy was assassinated, Sorensen...
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explore the inside story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear holocaust. In the first major feature documentary on the subject, the film brings to life the three central characters; Kennedy, Castro and Khrushchev, and explores how the world's most powerful men fell into an abyss of their own making and outlines the courage and luck it took to climb out again.
