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Averting Failure: The Secret ExComm Meetings
May 16, 2004
Sheldon M. Stern former Kennedy Library historian
Brian McGrory columnist, Boston Globe

Sheldon M. Stern, former Kennedy Library historian, discusses his book, Averting The Final Failure, a first-ever narrative account of the secret Executive Committee meetings among President Kennedy and his most trusted advisors during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Boston Globe's Brian McGrory moderates.

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Image of Averting 'The Final Failure': John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)
Author: Sheldon Stern
Publisher: Stanford University Press (2003)
Binding: Hardcover, 504 pages
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