The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited is a comprehensive overview of the great cornucopia of new materials recently released by the Soviet Union, United States, and Cuba. The authors, some of whom were participants in the crisis, have all had a major role in bringing to light either significant reevaluations of the crisis, or in some cases, truly startling revelations of the extant wisdom surrounding much of the crisis. The collection, edited by a long-time student of the crisis, is a coherent, original, and up-to-date work that bears on a moment when the world, for good cause, held its breath in fear that the morning might bring the apocalypse.
Preface - Notes on Contributors - The Heyday of New Strategy: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Confirmation of Coercive Diplomacy; J.A.Nathan - The Cuban Missile Crisis: An Overview; R.L.Garthoff - The Crisis of Misperceptions: One More Retrospective Appraisal of the Missile Crisis; S.Mikoyan - Reconsidering the Missile Crisis: Dealing with the Problems of the American Jupiters in Turkey; B.J.Bernstein - The View from Washington and the View from Nowhere: Cuban Missile Crisis Historiography and the Epistemology of Decision Making; L.Chang - The Traditional and Revisionist Interpretations Reevaluated: Why Was Cuba a Crisis?; R.N.Lebow - Thirteen Months: Cuba's Perspective on the Missile Crisis; P.Brenner - President Kennedy's Decision to Impose a Blockade in the Cuban Missile Crisis: Building a Concensus in the ExComm After the Decision; E. Cohn - Before 'The Missiles of October': Did Kennedy Plan a Military Strike Against Cuba?; J.Hershberg - The Kennedy-Kruschev Letters: An Overview; P.Brenner - Index
