Thirteen days: a memoir of the Cuban missile crisis

Foreword / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. --

"Tuesday morning, October 16, 1962" --

"The President knew he would have to act." --

"A majority opinion for a blockade" --

"It was now up to one single man." --

"The important meeting of the OAS" --

"I met with Dobrynin" --

"The danger was anything but over." --

"There were almost daily communications with Khrushchev." --

"Expect very heavy casualties in an invasion." --

"This would mean war." --

"Those hours in the Cabinet Room" --

"The President ordered the Ex Comm" --

"Some of the things we learned" --

"The importance of placing ourselves in the other country's shoes." --

Afterword / Richard E. Neustadt, Graham T. Allison.