EP27: The Missiles of October, Part Four
The following is a bibliography of the specific books that I have on my desk and that contributed to this series. This is by no means the total bibliography. For something closer to that, I will add the Kennedy Presidential Library’s reading list.
Allison, Graham T. Essence of Decision : Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. Boston : Little, Brown, 1971.
Allison, Graham T. Policy, Process, and Politics : Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Ph.D. dissertation : Harvard University, 1968.
Allison, Graham T. and Philip Zelikow. Essence of Decision : Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York : Addison Wesley Longman, c1999.
Beggs, Robert. Flashpoints : The Cuban Missile Crisis.London : Longman Group Ltd., 1971.
Beschloss, Michael, and Strobe Talbott. 2018. Michael Beschloss on the Cold War: the Crisis Years, Mayday, and At the Highest Levels. Newburyport: Open Road Media.
Bohlen, Charles E. Witness to History, 1929-1969. New York : Norton, 1973.
Bundy, McGeorge. Danger and Survival. New York : Random House, 1988.
Kennedy, Robert F., Richard E. Neustadt, and Graham T. Allison. 1968. Thirteen days: a memoir of the cuban missile crisis. New York: Norton and Company.
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich. Khrushchev Remembers : The Last Testament. Boston : Little,
Rusk, Dean. 1991. As I saw it: a secretary of state's memoirs. London: Tauris.
Stern, Sheldon M. Averting 'The Final Failure': John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings. Stanford University Press, 2003.
Swedin, Eric. 2011. When Angels Wept: a What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Dulles: Potomac Books.
This is a far more comprehensive reading list suggested by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
Abel, Elie. The Missile Crisis. Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1966.
Akers, Albert B. The Cuban Missile Crisis : A Study in Multilateral Diplomacy. Master's thesis : American University, 1964.
Allison, Graham T. Essence of Decision : Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. Boston : Little, Brown, 1971.
Allison, Graham T. Policy, Process, and Politics : Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Ph.D. dissertation : Harvard University, 1968.
Allison, Graham T. and Philip Zelikow. Essence of Decision : Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York : Addison Wesley Longman, c1999.
Allyn, Bruce James. Sources of "New Thinking" in Soviet Foreign Policy : Civilian Specialists and Policy Toward Inadvertent War. Ph.D. dissertation : Harvard University, 1990.
Ball, George Wildman. The Past Has Another Pattern : Memoirs. New York : Norton, 1982.
Barlow, Jeffrey Graham. President John F. Kennedy and His Joint Chiefs of Staff. Ph.D. dissertation : University of South Carolina, 1981.
Barnouw, Erik. A History of Broadcasting in the United States. New York : Oxford University Press, 1966-1970.
Beggs, Robert. Flashpoints : The Cuban Missile Crisis.London : Longman Group Ltd., 1971.
Berkowitz, Morton, P.G.Bock, and Vincent J. Fuccillo. The Politics of American Foreign Policy : The Social Context of Decisions. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, c1977.
Beschloss, Michael R. The Crisis Years : Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963. New York : Harper/Collins, c1991.
Biermann, Harald. John F. Kennedy und der Kalte Krieg: Die Aussenpolitik der USA und die Grenzen der Glaubwürdigkeit. Paderborn, Germany : Ferdinand Schöningh, c1997.
Biggs, James W. A Rhetorical Analysis of the Speechmaking of Adlai Stevenson Inside and Outside the United Nations on Major Issues During the 17th, 18th, and 19th Sessions of the General Assembly. Ph.D. dissertation : Southern Illinois University, 1970.
Bird, Kai. The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1998.
Blight, James G. The Shattered Crystal Ball : Fear and Learning in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Savage, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c1990.
Blight, James G., Bruce J. Allyn, and David A.Welch. Cuba on the Brink : Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse. New York : Pantheon Books, 1993.
Blight, James G and David A.Welch. Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis. London : Frank Cass, 1998.
Blight, James G and David A.Welch. On the Brink : Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York : Hill & Wang, 1989.
Bohlen, Charles E. Witness to History, 1929-1969. New York : Norton, 1973.
Bostdorff, Denise M. The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 1994.
Brinkley, Douglas G. Dean Acheson : Elder Statesman of the Cold War, 1953-1971. Ph.D. dissertation : Georgetown University, 1989.
Brown, Richard Mayhew. United States Propaganda Performance in Crisis, 1960-1965. Ph.D. dissertation : University of North Carolina, 1971.
Brown, Seyom. The Faces of Power : Constancy and Change in United States Foreign Policy from Truman to Johnson. New York : Columbia University Press, 1968.
Brubaker, Paul. The Cuban Missile Crisis in American History. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, Inc, c2001.
Brugioni, Dino A. Eyeball to Eyeball : The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York : Random House, 1991, c1990.
Brune, Lester H. The Missile Crisis of October 1962 : A Review of Issues and References. Claremont, CA : Regina Books, 1996.
Bundy, McGeorge. Danger and Survival. New York : Random House, 1988.
Caldwell, Dan. "Department of Defense Operations During the Cuban Crisis : A Report by Adam Yarmolinsky, 13 February 1963". In Naval War College Review, V.32, July-Aug. 1979.
Cambridge Conference on the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 11-12 1987. Proceedings. Cambridge, MA : John F. Kennedy School of Government, Center for Science & International Affairs, Harvard University, January, 1989.
Cecile, Robert E. Crisis Decision-making in the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administration : Applications of an Analytical Scheme. Ph.D. dissertation : University of Oklahoma, 1965.
Chang, Laurence and Peter Kornbluh. The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 : A National Security Archive Documents Reader. New York : The New Press, 1992.
Chayes, Abram. The Cuban Missile Crisis. London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1974.
Chrisp, Peter. The Cuban Missile Crisis. Milwaukee : World Almanac Library, 2002.
Clinton, Susan Maloney. The Cuban Missile Crisis. Chicago : Childrens Press, 1993.
Cold War International History Project Bulletin. Washington, DC : Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1992-.
Crabb, Cecil Van Meter. American Foreign Policy in the Nuclear Age. New York : Harper & Row, 1972.
Crowley, Desmond W. The Background to Current Affairs. New York : St. Martin's, 1966.
Crozier, Brian. The Masters of Power. Boston : Little Brown, 1969.
Curry, Joanne Marie. John F. Kennedy, the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis : An Examination of Presidential Leadership. Master's thesis : University of San Francisco, 1981.
Daniel, James and John G. Hubbell. Strike in the West : The Complete Story of the Cuban Crisis. New York : Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963.
Delmas, Claude. Crises a Cuba : 1961-1962. Brussels : Editions Complexe : Diffusion, S.P.R.L., c1983.
Detzer, David. The Brink : Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. New York : Crowell, 1979.
Dinerstein, Herbert Samuel. The Making of a Missile Crisis, October, 1962. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.
DiRenzo, Gordon J. Personality and Politics. Garden City, NY : Anchor Books, 1974.
Divine, Robert A. The Cuban Missile Crisis. New York : M. Wiener Pub., 1988.
Dobrynin, Anatoly. In Confidence : Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents (1962-1986). New York : Times Books, c1995.
Donovan, James A. Militarism, U.S.A.New York : Scribner, 1970.
Eubank, Keith. The Missile Crisis in Cuba. Malabar, FL : Krieger Pub. Co., 2000.
Finkelstein, Norman H. Thirteen Days / Ninety Miles : The Cuban Missile Crisis. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Fisher, Roger Drummer. International Conflict for Beginners. New York : Harper & Row, 1969.
Fleming, Fergus. The Cuban Missile Crisis : To the Brink of World War III. Chicago : Heinemann Library, c2001.
Fontaine, Mark Roselius. The Press, American Policy, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Master's thesis : American University, 1969.
Freedman, Lawrence. Kennedy's Wars. New York, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Friedrich, Carl Joachim. The Pathology of Politics : Violence, Betrayal, Corruption, Secrecy, and Propaganda. New York : Harper & Row, 1972.
Fursenko, Aleksandr and Timothy Naftali,. One Hell of a Gamble : Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1997.
Gaddis, John Lewis. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1997.
Gambrell, Leonard Lee. The Influence of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman in the Making of United States Foreign Policy : A Case Analysis. Ph.D. dissertation : University of Virginia, 1971.
Garthoff, Raymond L. Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Washington, DC : Brookings Institution, c1989.
Gehlen, Michael P. The Politics of Coexistence : Soviet Methods and Motives. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1967.
George, Alexander L., David K. Hall and William E. Simons. The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy : Laos, Cuba, Vietnam. Boston : Little, Brown, 1971.
George, Alexander L. and Richard Smoke. Deterrence in American Foreign Policy : Theory and Practice. New York : Columbia University Press, 1974.
George, Alice L. The Cuban Missile Crisis : Americans' Responses to the Threat of Nuclear War. Ph.D. dissertation : Temple University, May 2001.
Gerson, Joseph. With Hiroshima Eyes : Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion and Moral Imagination. Philadelphia : New Society Publishers, with the cooperation of the American Friends Service Committee, New England Regional Office, c1995.
Goldgeier, James Marc. Soviet Leaders and International Crises : The Influence of Domestic Political Experiences on Foreign Policy Strategies. Ph.D. dissertation : University of California at Berkeley, 1990.
Goldsmith, William M. The Growth of Presidential Power : A Documented History. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1974.
Goldwater, Barry Morris. With No Apologies : The Personal and Political Memoirs of United States Senator Barry M. Goldwater. New York : Morrow, 1979.
Graziano, Paul Eugene. Soviet Motivations During the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962). Master's thesis : Duquesne University, 1972.
Greenstein, Fred I. Personality and Politics : Problems of Evidence, Inference, and Conceptualization. Chicago : Markham Pub. Co., 1969.
Gribkov, Anatoli I. and William Y. Smith. Operation ANADYR : U.S. and Soviet Generals Recount the Cuban Missile Crisis. Chicago : Edition q, Inc, c1994.
Guthman, Edwin. We Band of Brothers. New York : Harper & Row, 1971.
Halper, Thomas. Appearance and Reality in Five American Foreign Policy Crises. Ph.D. dissertation : Vanderbilt University Press, 1970.
Halperin, Morton H. Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy. Washington, DC : Brookings Institution, 1974.
Hamby, Alonzo L. The Imperial Years : The United States Since 1939. New York : Weybright and Talley, c1976.
Hammarskjold Forum, 3d, New York, Nov. 19 1962. The Inter-American Security System and the Cuban Crisis : Background Papers and Proceedings. Dobbs Ferry, NY : Published for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York by Oceana Publications, 1964.
Hardin, Charles Meyer. Presidential Power & Accountability : Toward a New Constitution. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1974.
Harris, George Sellers. Troubled Alliance : Turkish-American Problems in Historical Perspective, 1945-1971. Washington, DC : American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1972.
Hawk's Cay Conference on the Cuban Missile Crisis, March 5-8, 1987. Proceedings. Cambridge, MA : John F. Kennedy School of Government, Center for Science & International Affairs, Harvard University, January, 1989.
Hilsman, Roger. The Cuban Missile Crisis : The Struggle Over Policy. Westport, CT, London : Praeger, 1996.
Hilsman, Roger and Robert C. Good. Foreign Policy in the Sixties : The Issues and the Instruments : Essays in Honor of Arnold Wolfers. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1965.
Hoagland, Steven William. Operational Codes and International Crises : The Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile Cases. Ph.D. dissertation : Arizona State University, 1978.
Holbraad, Carsten. Superpowers and International Conflict. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1979.
Holsti, Ole R. Crisis, Escalation, War. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1972.
Huchthausen, Peter A. October Fury. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., c2002.
Hudson, Geoffrey Francis. The Hard and Bitter Peace : World Politics Since 1945. New York : Praeger, 1967.
Hunt, Michael H. Crises in U.S. Foreign Policy. New Haven & London : Yale University Press, c1996.
Infield, Glenn B. Unarmed and Unafraid. New York : Macmillan, 1970.
Isenberg, Michael T. Shield of the Republic : The United States Navy in an Era of Cold War and Violent Peace : Volume 1, 1945-1962. New York : St. Martin's Press, c1993.
Janis, Irving Lester. Groupthink : Psychological Studies of Foreign Policy Decisions and Fiascoes. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1983, c1982.
Johns, Forrest Ronald. The Naval Quarantine of Cuba, 1962. Master's thesis : University of California, San Diego, 1984.
Joxe, Alain. Socialisme et Crise Nucleaire. Paris : L'Herne, 1973.
Kagan, Donald. On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace. New York : Doubleday, 1995.
Kahan, Jerome H. Security in the Nuclear Age : Developing U.S. Strategic Arms Policy. Washington, DC : Brookings Institution, 1975.
Kahan, Jerome and Anne K. Long. "The Cuban Missile Crisis : A Study of its Strategic Context". Reprinted from Political Science Quarterly, V.87, #4, December 1972.
Kahn, Herman. On Escalation : Metaphors and Scenarios. New York : Praeger, 1965.
Karol, K. S. Guerrillas in Power : The Course of the Cuban Revolution. New York : Hill & Wang, 1970.
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald. The Cuban Missile Crisis : President Kennedy's Address to the Nation, October 22, 1962. Washington, DC : National Archives and Records Administration, 1988.
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald. John F. Kennedy: The Great Crises. 3 vol. Timothy Naftali, Ernest R. May and Philip Zelikow, editors. New York : W.W. Norton, c2001.
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald. The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis. Ernest R. May and Philip Zelikow, editors. Cambridge & London : Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1997.
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald and Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev. "Kennedy-Khrushchev Correspondence During the Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962". In Department of State Bulletin. Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of State, November 19, 1973
Kennedy, Robert F. Thirteen Days : A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York : W.W. Norton, 1969.
Kern, Montague, Patricia W. Levering and Ralph B. Levering. The Kennedy Crises : The Press, the Presidency, and Foreign Policy. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1983.
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich. Khrushchev Remembers : The Last Testament. Boston : Little, Brown, 1974.
Kurland, Gerald. The Cuban Missile Crisis. Charlotteville, NY : Story House Corp., 1973.
LaFeber, Walter. America in the Cold War : Twenty Years of Revolutions and Response, 1947-1967. New York : Wiley, 1969.
LaFeber, Walter. America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1975. New York : Wiley, c1976.
Lapp, Ralph Eugene. The Weapons Culture. New York : Norton, 1968.
Larson, David L. The "Cuban Crisis" of 1962 : Selected Documents and Chronology. Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 1986.
Latham, Earl. J.F. Kennedy and Presidential Power. Lexington, MA : Heath, 1972.
Layson, Walter W. Cuba, Soviet Motivations and Khrushchev's Grand Strategy. Paper Presented before the International Crises Panel, annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Dallas, Texas, March 17, 1972.
Layson, Walter W. The Political and Strategic Aspects of the 1962 Cuban Crisis. Ph.D. dissertation : University of Tennessee, [1971?]
Lazo, Mario. Dagger in the Heart : American Policy Failures in Cuba. New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1968.
Lebow, Richard Ned and Janice Gross Stein. We All Lost the Cold War. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c1994.
Lechuga, Carlos. Cuba and the Missile Crisis. Melbourne, Australia & New York : Ocean Press, c2001.
Lee, Chris P. An Exercise in Utility : Civil Defense From Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Ph.D. dissertation : Saint Louis University, 2001.
Leighton, Richard M. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 : A Case in National Security Crisis Management. Washington, DC : National Defense University ; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978.
Lobel, Aaron. Presidential Judgment : Foreign Policy Decision Making in the White House. Hollis, NH : Hollis Publishing Company, c2001.
Lofgren, Charles A. Kennedy, Clio, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Paper. Claremont Men's College, Claremont, CA, 1967; revised June 1969.
Luskin, John. Lippmann, Liberty, and the Press. University, AL : University of Alabama Press, 1972.
Machín, María. The Cuban Missile Crisis : An Analysis of a Quarter Century of historiography. Master's thesis : Florida Atlantic University, 1990.
Macmillan, Harold. At the End of the Day, 1961-1963. New York : Harper & Row, 1973.
MacNeil, Robert. The Right Place at the Right Time. Boston : Little, Brown, c1982.
Malkasian, Mark and Louise K. Davidson. In the Shadow of the Cold War : The Caribbean and Central America in U.S. Foreign Policy. Providence, RI : Center for Foreign Policy Development , The Choices for the 21st Century Education Project, Brown University, c1991.
Manchester, William Raymond. The Glory and the Dream : A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972. Boston : Little, Brown, 1974.
Mandelbaum, Michael. The Nuclear Question : The United States and Nuclear Weapons, 1946-1976. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Mankiewicz, Frank and Kirby Jones. With Fidel : A Portrait of Castro and Cuba. Chicago : Playboy Press, c1975.
Matthews, Herbert Lionel. A World in Revolution : A Newspaperman's Memoirs. New York : Scribner, 1972, c1971.
McClellan, Grant S. U.S. Policy in Latin America. New York : H.W. Wilson Co., 1963.
McLellan, David S. Dean Acheson : The State Department Years. New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., c1976.
McMahan, Ian. Highlights of American History. New York : Golden Press, 1968.
Medina, Loreta M., ed. The Cuban Missile Crisis. San Diego, CA :Greenhaven Press, c2002.
Medland, William J. The American-Soviet Nuclear Confrontation of 1962 : A Historiographical Account of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Ph.D. dissertation : Ball State University, 1980.
Medland, William J. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 : Needless or Necessary. New York : Praeger, 1988.
Meisler, Stanley. United Nations : The First Fifty Years. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c1995.
Melhuish, Paul. The Rhetoric of Crisis : A Burkian Analysis of John F. Kennedy's October 22, 1962 Cuban Address. Master's thesis : University of Oregon, 1963.
Merchant Jerrold Jackson. Kennedy-Khrushchev Strategies of Persuasion During the Cuban Missile Crisis. Ph.D. dissertation : University of Southern California, 1971.
Mezerik, A.G. Cuba and the United States : Bay of Pigs, October Crisis, Khrushchev-Kennedy, U.S., OAS Action. New York : International Review Service, 1963.
Miller, Lynn H. and Ronald W. Pruessen. Reflections on the Cold War : A Quarter Century of American Foreign Policy. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1974.
Minow, Newton N, John Bartlow Martin and Lee M. Mitchell. Presidential Television. New York : Basic Books, 1973.
Minter, William Maynard. The Council on Foreign Relations : A Case Study in the Societal Bases of Foreign Policy Formation. Ph.D. dissertation : University of Wisconsin, 1974.
Molineu, James Harold. The Concept of the Caribbean in the Latin American Policy of the United States. Ph.D. dissertation : American University, 1967.
Morris, Richard B and James Woodress. Hope and Anguish in Foreign Relations, 1962-1975. New York : Webster Division, McGraw-Hill, 1976.
Morris, Richard Brandon and Jeffery B. Morris. Great Presidential Decisions : State Papers That Changed the Course of History from Washington to Reagan. New York : Richardson, Steirman & Black, 1988.
Morris, Richard Brandon and James Woodress. Times of Crisis, 1962-1975. New York : Dutton, c1976.
Moscow Conference on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1989 : Moscow, R.S.F.S.R.). Back to the Brink : Proceedings of the Moscow Conference on the Cuban Missile Crisis, January 27-28, 1989. Lanham, MD : Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University ; University Press of America, Inc, c1992.
Moss, Norman. Men Who Play God : The Story of the H-bomb and How the World Came to Live With It. New York : Harper & Row, c1968.
Murphy, Robert Daniel. Diplomat Among Warriors. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1964.
Nacos, Brigitte Lebens. The Press, Presidents, and Crises. New York : Columbia University Press, c1990.
Nash, Philip. The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Jupiters, 1957-1963. Chapel Hill & London : University of North Carolina Press, c1997.
Nathan, James A. The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited. New York : St. Martin's Press, c1992.
National Security Archive. A Chronology of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Washington, DC : National Security Archive, February 1, 1988.
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Neustadt, Richard E and Ernest R. May. Thinking in Time : The Uses of History for Decision-makers. New York : Free Press, c1986.
Oswald, Joseph Gregory. Soviet Image of Contemporary Latin America : A Documentary History, 1960-1968. Austin : Published for the Conference on Latin American History by the University of Texas Press, 1970.
Pachter, Heinz. Chruschtschow, Kennedy, Castro : Die Oktoberkrise 1962 und ihre Folgen. Berlin : Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1963.
Pachter, Henry Maximilian. Collision Course : The Cuban Missile Crisis and Coexistence. New York : Praeger, 1963.
Parkinson, F. Latin America, the Cold War & the World Powers, 1945-1973 : A Study in Diplomatic History. Beverly Hills, CA : Sage Publications, 1974.
Parrent, Allan M. The Responsible Use of Power : The Cuban Missile Crisis in Christian Perspective. Ph.D. dissertation : Duke University, 1969.
Phillips, Glen D. The Use of Radio and Television by Presidents of the United States. Ph.D. dissertation : University of Michigan, 1968.
Pierre, Andrew J. The Independent Nuclear Force : The British Experience, 1939-1967. Ph.D. dissertation : Columbia University, 1968.
Pierre, Andrew J. Nuclear Politics The British Experience with an Independent Strategic Force, 1939-1970. London : Oxford University Press, 1972.
Poole, Peter A. America in World Politics : Foreign Policy and Policy-makers Since 1898. New York : Praeger, 1975.
Power, Thomas Sarsfield and Albert A. Arnhym. Design for Survival. New York : Coward-McCann, 1965.
Pratt, James Ward. A Study of Presidential Crisis Speaking as a Potential Rhetorical Style. Ph.D. dissertation : University of Minnesota, 1971.
Preston, John Thomas. The President and His Inner Circle : Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Policy Making. Ph.D. Dissertation : Ohio State University, 1996.
Quester, George H. Nuclear Diplomacy : The First Twenty-five Years. New York : Dunellen Co., 1970.
Quigley, Carroll. Tragedy and Hope : A History of the World in Our Time. New York : Macmillan, 1966.
Rees, David. The Age of Containment : The Cold War, 1945-1965. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1967.
Reichart, John Frederick. National Security Advice to the President : A Comparative Case Study Analysis of the Structural Variable in Decision-making. Ph.D. dissertation : Ohio State University, 1979.
Rimkus, Raymond Alston. The Cuban Missile Crisis : A Decision-making Analysis of the Quarantine Policy with Special Emphasis Upon the Implication for Decision-making Theory. Ph.D. dissertation : University of Oklahoma, 1972.
Roberts, Arthur D. Confrontation : The Cuban Missile Crisis. [s.l.], CT : Xerox Corp., 1972.
Ross, Bernard H. American Government in Crisis : An Analysis of the Executive Branch of Government During the Cuban Missile Crisis. Ph.D. dissertation : New York University, 1971.
Rostow, Eugene Victor. Peace in the Balance : The Future of American Foreign Policy. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1972.
Rostow, Walt Whitman. The View from the Seventh Floor. New York : Harper & Row, 1964.
Sandman, Joshua Harry. The Cuban Missile Crisis : Developing a Prescriptive Model for Handling Nuclear Age Crisis. Ph.D. dissertation : New York University, 1978.
Saunders, Albert Conrad. The Limited Nuclear Test Ban and the Churches : A Political and Ethical Analysis of United States Arms Control Efforts, 1958-1963. Ph.D. dissertation : Duke University, 1969.
Schick, Jack M. The Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971.
Schlesinger, Arthur Meier Jr. The Dynamics of World Power : A Documentary History of United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1973. New York : Chelsea House, 1973.
Schneider, Walter Louis. Spoken Rhetoric and Its Application to the United States Presidency. Ph.D. dissertation : University of California, Berkeley, 1968.
Schwarz, Urs. American Strategy : A New Perspective : The Growth of Politico-Military Thinking in the United States. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1966.
Scott, Leonard Victor. Macmillan, Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis: Political, Military and Intelligence Aspects. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Seaborg, Glenn Theodore and Benjamin S. Loeb. Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Test Ban. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1981.
Semidei, Manuela. Les Etats-Unis et la Revolution Cubaine, 1959-1964. Paris : Librairie Armand Colin, 1968.
Sigal, Leon V. Reporters and Officials : The Organization and Politics of Newsmaking. Lexington, MA : D.C. Heath, 1973.
Silvert, Kalman H. The Conflict Society : Reaction and Revolution in Latin America. New York : American Universities Field Staff, 1966.
Skillern, William Gustaf. An Analysis of the Decision-making Process in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Ph.D. dissertation : University of Idaho, 1971.
Small, William J. Political Power and the Press. New York : W.W. Norton, 1972.
Smith, Gary Duane. The Pulse of Presidential Popularity : Kennedy in Crisis. Ph.D. dissertation : University of California, Los Angeles, 1978.
Smith, Robert Freeman. What Happened in Cuba? : A Documentary History. New York : Twayne Publishers, 1963.
Sobel, Lester A. Russia's Rulers : The Khrushchev Period. New York : Facts on File, 1971.
Solberg, Carl. Riding High : America in the Cold War. New York : Mason & Lipscomb, c1973.
Somerville, John. The Peace Revolution : Ethos and Social Progress. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 1975.
Stern, Sheldon M. Averting 'The Final Failure': John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings. Stanford University Press, 2003.
Stoessinger, John George. Crusaders and Pragmatists : Movers of Modern American Foreign Policy. New York : Norton, c1979.
Stone, Isidor F. In a Time of Torment. New York : Random House, 1967.
Stuart, Douglas T. The Link Between General and Situation-specific Beliefs : JFK, the Missile Crisis, and the Bay of Pigs. Paper Prepared for the International Society of Political Psychology, Boston, June 1980.
Suchlicki, Jaime. Cuba, Castro, and Revolution. Coral Gables, FL : University of Miami Press, 1972.
Tatu, Michel. Power in the Kremlin : from Krushchev to Kosygin. New York : Viking Press, 1969.
Tavares de Sa, Hernane. The Play Within the Play : The Inside Story of the UN. New York : Knopf, 1966.
Terkel, Louis. Talking to Myself : A Memoir of My Times. New York : Pantheon Books, 1977.
Thomas, Guto Rhys. Trade and Shipping to Cuba 1961-1963: An Irritant in Anglo-American Relations. Ph.D. dissertation : University of Wales, Aberystwyth, September 30, 2001.
Thompson, Robert Smith. The Missiles of October : The Declassified Story of John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1992.
Toole, Morton Egner. The Kennedy Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. Master's thesis : American University, 1966.
Trachtenberg, Marc. History and Strategy. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c1991.
Trivers, Howard. Three Crises in American Foreign Affairs and a Continuing Revolution. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1972.
Trojacek, John Wayne. The Influence of International Legal Considerations in the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Master's thesis : North Texas State University, 1977.
Trotter, Richard Gordon. The Cuban Missile Crisis : An Analysis of Policy Formulation in Terms of Current Decision Making Theory. Ph.D. dissertation : University of Pennsylvania, 1971.
Ulam, Adam Bruno. The Rivals : America and Russia Since World War II. New York : Viking Press, 1971.
United States. Air Force Academy. Department of Political Science. American Defense Policy. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.
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United States. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963, Vol. VI: Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges. Washington, DC : U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1996.
United States. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963, Vol. XI: Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath. Washington, DC : U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1996.
United States. Information Agency. Problems of Communism : Special Edition. Washington, DC : U.S. Information Agency, Spring 1992.
United States. President, 1961-1963 (Kennedy). The U.S. Response to Soviet Military Buildup in Cuba : Report to the People, October 22, 1962. Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of State, 1962.
Usowski, Peter Stanley. John F. Kennedy and the Central Intelligence Agency : Policy and Intelligence. Ph.D. dissertation : George Washington University, 1987.
Utz, Curtis A. Cordon of Steel : The U.S. Navy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Washington, DC : Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, 1993.
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