Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

New York: Norton, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First edition, first printing with statement "First Edition january 20, 1969" and correct number line beginning with "1". Fine. in bright, crisp, near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the front flap fold and spine tips; U.S. prince intact on frotn flap and U.K. price clipped. Hardcover. Illustrated endpapers. 224 pp. with index. Introductions by Robert S. McNamara and Harold Macmillan. Illustrated with photographs. Published the year after his death, this is then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's personal, in-the-room account of one of the 20th century's most pivotal and disturbing events---the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. On the morning of October 16, RFK got a call from his brother President John F. Kennedy summoning him to the White House, saying only that "we [were] facing great trouble. an American U-2 had just photographed what the intelligence community were convinced was Russian placement of missles and atomic weapons in Cuba. As the crisis played out over the next 13 days, both sides were engaged in the highest level, incredibly tense negotiations. History now records that Kennedy forced Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev to back down but Robert Kennedy's document reveals not previously known facts from behind the closed doors while the world held its breath. The crisis was the basis for the compelling and acclaimed 2000 Netflix movie "Thirteen Days" starring Kevin Costner and Bruce Greenwood. A much better that usually encountered copy.