The ending of the Cold War divisions of Europe took place largely backstage, this book aims to let the reader in on some of the strategies and negotiations, last-minute decision making, and deliberations that made it possible. Using still-classified documents from the American archive, documents fro[...]
These are the first three volumes of the complete transcription of declassified US presidential recordings, annotated by a group of scholars. These volumes cover July-October 1962, revealing Kennedy and top advisers negotiating such events as US covert action in Brazil, racial unrest at the Universi[...]