I’ve read several great books in the last few months/years but I can’t remember the last time I was so gripped by a book that I lost sleep because I couldn’t put it down. It reads like it’s written by Aaron Sorkin – but it all happened and JFK secretly recorded everything on tape. We’re literally in the room at the moment when humanity approached its destruction. If I had a pure pol-sci / IR / management class this would be essential reading.
E. R. May and P. D. Zelikow (Eds), The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis (Concise edition, W. W. Norton & Co, 2002)