TY - BOOK AU - Stern,Sheldon M TI - The Cuban Missile Crisis in American memory: myths versus reality T2 - Stanford nuclear age series SN - 9780804783774 (pbk.) : AV - E841 .S7575 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Stanford, California PB - Stanford University Press KW - National Security Council (U.S.) KW - Executive Committee KW - Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 KW - Historiography KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Soviet Union KW - 1961-1963 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; History : from reel to real -- The template : Robert F. Kennedy's Thirteen days -- The real Robert Kennedy -- The mythmaking of Robert McNamara -- The forgotten voice of Dean Rusk -- The erratic expertise of Llewellyn Thompson -- The selective memory of McGeorge Bundy -- The determined diplomacy of Adlai Stevenson -- The Trollope ploy myth -- Lyndon Johnson and the Cuban Missile Crisis : an unanticipated consequence? -- Conclusion : leadership matters -- Epilogue : What if? ER -