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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
A worthwhile purchase: 
While this brief account of the Cuban Missile Crisis, written by Robert Kennedy in 1967, can not be called the most thorough recounting of events between October 16 and October 29, 1962, it has two major selling points:
1.) It is a first person account of a critical moment in American foreign relations, told simply yet compellingly by a key participant.
2.) Personal asides, which could only come from the President's brother, add a dimension to the narrative that can not be found even in Schlesinger's... more info
A Historical Lesson about Human Nature and our own Mortality:
"Thirteen Days", a memoir by Robert Kennedy has become one of the most insightful and behind-the-scenes accounts of one of the most studied military confrontations in history. It was a time in which the world looked nuclear annihilation directly in the eyes over the course of 13 dramatic days in October of 1962.
RFK, an intricate player throughout the process, lays out in chilling recollection the Cuban Missile Crisis and how close we actually came to that fateful day when the world's superpowers would... more info
very interessing!:
rfk tells us about how jfk and him rescued the world, it's exciting.
this is the best book of the cuban missile crisis.
i advise you to read it.
people who don't like it are odd.
Bobby and Jack Kennedy are two of the greatest men in American history.
Highly recommended for them who are ineressing for history, as well as the intentions of one of America's best-loved martyrs.
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