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Thirteen Days
- A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Narrated by: Kurt Elftmann
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
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In October 1962, when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes the hour-by-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions and views of his brother, President John F. Kennedy.
In a foreword to this edition, the distinguished historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., discusses the book's enduring importance and the significance of new information about the crisis that has come to light from the former Soviet Union.
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Nuclear Folly
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- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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Nearly 30 years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis. Serhii Plokhy offers an international perspective on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making that produced and then resolved it, which involved John Kennedy and his advisers, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and their commanders on the ground.
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A Must Read
- By Robert from Brookline on 08-22-21
By: Serhii Plokhy
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Profiles in Courage
- By: John F. Kennedy
- Narrated by: John F. Kennedy Jr., Caroline Kennedy
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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During 1954-1955, John F. Kennedy, then a US senator, chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. These heroes include John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, Profiles in Courage - now reissued, featuring a new introduction by Caroline Kennedy as well as Robert Kennedy's foreword written for the memorial edition of the volume in 1964 - resounds with timeless lessons.
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Abridged
- By Tom R on 01-04-17
By: John F. Kennedy
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American Values
- Lessons I Learned from My Family
- By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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With rich detail, compelling honesty, and a storyteller’s gift, RFK Jr. describes growing up Kennedy in a tumultuous time in history that eerily echoes the issues of nuclear confrontation, religion, race, and inequality that we confront today. This powerful book combines the best aspects of memoir and political history. The third child of Attorney General Robert Kennedy and nephew of JFK takes us on a journey through his life, including watershed moments in the history of our nation.
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Worth a repeat listen, but . . .
- By Lori Hanson on 08-06-18
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: A History From Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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The Cold War between the United States of America and the Soviet Union lasted for more than 40 years. In general, this was a war of spies and subterfuge, of covert action and espionage. There was always a danger, however, that an error of judgment on either side could suddenly cause the Cold War to turn red-hot with an exchange of nuclear weapons. On many occasions, tensions between the countries increased, but the prospect of all-out nuclear war between America and Russia was never closer than during a two-week period in October of 1962.
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Excellent Book
- By Demarcus brooks on 04-17-20
By: Hourly History
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Red November
- Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War
- By: W. Craig Reed
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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Red November is filled with hair-raising, behind-the-scenes stories that take you deep beneath the surface and into the action of the Cold War. Few know how close the world has come to annihilation better than the warriors who served America during the tense, 45-year struggle known as the Cold War. Yet for decades, their work has remained shrouded in secrecy.
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Blind Man's Bluff meets Cuban Missile Crisis
- By SeaDuck on 08-10-10
By: W. Craig Reed
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A Thousand Days
- John F. Kennedy in the White House
- By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 44 hrs
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency—from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy's tragic and unexpected assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald. In A Thousand Days, Schlesinger combines intimate knowledge as one of President Kennedy's inner circle with sweeping research and historic context to provide a look at one of the most legendary presidential administrations in American history.
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The Shadow of War
- A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- By: Jeff Shaara
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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In 1961, the new president John F. Kennedy, inherited an ill-conceived, poorly executed invasion of Cuba that failed miserably and set in motion the events that put the U.S. and the Soviet Union on a collision course that nearly started a war that would have enveloped much of the world. Extensively researched and vividly imagined, The Shadow of War brings to life the many threads that lead to the building crisis between the Soviet Union and the United States in 1962.
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Never disapoints
- By Ray J. on 07-24-24
By: Jeff Shaara
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- The Men Who are Destroying Life on Earth - and What It Means for Our Children
- By: Dick Russell, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - introduction
- Narrated by: Joel Richards - foreword
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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The science is overwhelming; the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are everywhere to be seen. Yet, as time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: energy moguls like the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Powerful politicians like Senators Mitch McConnell and Jim Inhofe, who receive massive contributions from the oil and coal industries. Most of these men are too intelligent to truly believe that climate change is not a growing crisis.
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Very important exposé of corporate greed.
- By Carl Howard on 02-09-18
By: Dick Russell, and others
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The Abyss
- Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Max Hastings, John Hopkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
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Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history—the Cuban Missile Crisis—providing a people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct of Russians, Cubans, Americans, and a terrified world that followed each moment as it unfolded.
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Good book, but has some issues
- By Mike From Mesa on 11-10-22
By: Max Hastings
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A Letter to Liberals
- Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals
- By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrated by: Bruce Wagner
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
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A leading Democrat challenges his party to return to liberal values and evidence-based science.
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One-sided, interesting but biased
- By Dr. Ellingham on 06-07-23
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Thirteen Days in September
- Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Lawrence Wright
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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A gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle East, one which endures to this day.
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Lessons in Negotiation
- By David on 06-18-15
By: Lawrence Wright
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The Brilliant Disaster
- JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba
- By: Jim Rasenberger
- Narrated by: Bob Walter
- Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
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The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in 1961 remains one of the most ill-fated blunders in American history, with echoes of the event reverberating even today. Despite the Kennedy administration’s initial public insistence that the United States had nothing to do with the invasion, it soon became clear that the complex operation had been planned and approved by the best and brightest minds at the highest reaches of Washington, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff and President John F. Kennedy himself.
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US Government Perspective
- By Kindle Customer on 05-25-11
By: Jim Rasenberger
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The Wuhan Cover-Up
- And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race
- By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrated by: Bruce Wagner
- Length: 22 hrs and 9 mins
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From the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Real Anthony Fauci comes an explosive exposé of the cover-up behind the true origins of COVID-19.
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More Important than The Real Anthony Fauci
- By A Reviewer on 12-20-23
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Framed
- Why Michael Skakel Spent over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit
- By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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In 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley's body was found in the backyard of her family's Connecticut home, and a member of America's beloved Kennedy family, then also 15, was accused of the crime. What ensued was a media firestorm and a whodunit that transfixed the nation, providing daily debates - and cruel, dinner table entertainment. Now, 40 years after Michael Skakel's conviction, his cousin, acclaimed activist and writer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has taken matters into his own hands to get the charges dropped and clear his cousin's name.
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Well written
- By Dewey on 08-13-16
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The Fourteenth Day
- JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- By: David G. Coleman
- Narrated by: Andy Caploe
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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A fly-on-the-wall narrative of the Oval Office in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis, using JFK’s secret White House tapes. On October 28, 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba. Popular history has marked that day as the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a seminal moment in American history. As President Kennedy’s secretly recorded White House tapes now reveal, the reality was not so simple.
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Irritating Narration
- By Erik on 09-27-13
By: David G. Coleman
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Reclaiming History
- The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
- By: Vincent Bugliosi
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
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Polls reveal that 85 percent of Americans believe there was a conspiracy behind Lee Harvey Oswald. Some even believe Oswald was entirely innocent. In this encyclopedic, absorbing audiobook, Vincent Bugliosi shows how the public has come to believe such lies about the day that changed the course of history. Bugliosi has devoted almost 20 years of his life to this project, and is determined to show that, despite the overwhelming popular perception, Oswald killed Kennedy and acted alone.
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Exceptional Detailed Account
- By Lindsay on 06-20-07
By: Vincent Bugliosi
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Gambling with Armageddon
- Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
- By: Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
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In this groundbreaking look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Sherwin not only gives us a riveting sometimes hour-by-hour explanation of the crisis itself, but also explores the origins, scope, and consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the post-World War II world. Mining new sources and materials, and going far beyond the scope of earlier works on this critical face-off between the United States and the Soviet Union — triggered when Khrushchev began installing missiles in Cuba at Castro's behest....
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Important History
- By J. B. Evans on 06-12-21
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- Larry A. Jasek
- 10-09-18
Historical Terror
Historical Terror at a time when there was so much unknown. This gives a good look at what else was going on from a Soviet perspective. I didn't know we had missiles right outside their back door. No wonder they wanted to place them outside our back door. Once again, the United States won the gamble.
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- Michael D. Russcher
- 06-27-21
Not as good as the movie
A but dry but still informative. I'd recommend the movie if you want something more entertaining
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- mr kieran j murphy
- 11-28-19
an insight into a point in history
this is an insight intoa point of history from someone who was in the room where it happened. history as it happened
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- Rick B
- 10-09-20
Nearly Armageddon
The Late Robert F. Kennedy's memoirs about the 13 days in October 1962 in my opinion should be introduced to our High Schools across America. You will, by listening to this excellent audio book come to the conclusion just how close the real Armageddon crossed the worlds path in just 13 days. During this time President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby faced a challenge that no man or men in history have ever faced. The two greatest powers on the planet, with the capability to destroy all life as we know it debated between their leaders, both in America & the USSR on the fate of the Cuban people and the rest of the world during this "Cuban Missile Crisis". Kurt Elftmann does an excellent job expressing the emotions of both leaders. What I appreciated allot about this book was it's references to the actual letters between President Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev and their direct correspondence during the 13 days. All this knowledge of course has been out of reach from the general public or forgotten as in the past. Americans who were either children or not even born during this stressful time can begin to appreciate the historical challenges and how the military pushed for an all out invasion of Cuba which the President choose not to do. His choice, and only one man could make the final decision, the President chose instead a Naval Blockade at a perimeter of 500 miles around Cuba preventing Soviet ships from delivering addition missiles and Bombers. The CIA was directly involved and U2 reconnaissance flights over Cuba occurred throughout the 13 days, One U2 was shot down and the pilot was killed. The CIA estimated 10,000 soviet troops in Cuba. In reality over 43,000 troop's and support personnel were on the island. The CIA estimated incorrectly the amount of missiles being readied for launch down to the very last day. They never confirmed that those 32 missiles were actually nuclear and could easily hit any city both in the North and South Americas within 1000 miles or more.
I also recommend further reading of the Audible book Red November by W. Craig Reed which expands on the submarine actions not discussed in 13 days that truly bring to fact that the Soviet Navy's B-59, B-4, B-36 & B-130 Foxtrot diesel-electric powered submarines equipped with a T-5 Nuclear torpedo's called the "Special Weapon", lay in wait for launch at our major Eastern Cities in the bottom of the ocean. Boston was only 1,500 miles away and Mexico City just over 1,300 miles. The power of this "Special Weapon would be equivalent to the Hiroshima bomb dropped on August 6th 1945 on Japan. The name forgotten to history, Vasili Arkhipov indeed saved the planet. One false move by either side and this review would not have been possible. I rate this 5 stars all the way as I also did with Red November!
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- David
- 08-06-15
An good inside look
I saw the film adaptation long before I read the book. The book is interesting but I'm suspicious to a degree since "Bobbie" is a central character, and the main character is his own brother. However, given whatever flaws it may have based on those relationships, it is still an important story of one of the most frightening events of the 20th Century. RFK's original work is quite brief, but the supplementary notes are as interesting and as important as the main work. It's is interesting to note the impact of a single book, Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August had on the President, and the results that had for the outcome of the crisis. The whole approach used by the President is useful in ways far beyond nuclear diplomacy.
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- A. Logan
- 11-19-22
interesting.
This is a very interesting listen and people are being too harsh on the narrator.
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- Lindsay
- 10-05-18
Great story, terrible narrator
Fascinating read that sheds insight into an important event in our history. To be honest, the book is a bit dry, but the material is still interesting. Also makes me wonder how much of this is a biased summary, given that JFK's brother wrote the book. All that aside, worthwhile read. Sort of makes you look at global politics a little differently.
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- Max & Lucy
- 02-24-19
IF YOU LOVE HISTORY"""
Robert Kennedy Lived it. I was a young republican then, but I think JFK handled this the best way possible.
In 1968, I planned to vote for RFK , Anybody to replace LBJ. Anyway, If you like history I believe you will enjoy
this book.
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- Paul Izzi
- 08-06-17
Exceptional look at near world annihilation
It brought back vivid memories of living in a home of 7 children and parents who were essentially dealing with the fear of total world destruction.
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- Casey
- 12-17-19
Excellent
RFK’s personal account is fast-paced and sobering. His style is very enjoyable and doesn’t bog down. I do wish his account was longer, it was so interesting.
The afterword was too long-winded, taking a full two hours of the listening time.
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