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David R. Gibson, Talk at the Brink: Deliberation and Decision during the Cuban Missile Crisis (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, $35.00). Pp. 265. ISBN 069 1 1513 18.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2013

THOMAS FIELD
THOMAS FIELD*
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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 47 , Issue 4: The “Un-American” , November 2013 , E115
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References

1 Fursenko, Alexsandr and Naftali, Timothy, One Helluva Gamble: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997), 234–35Google Scholar.

2 See Stern, Sheldon, Averting the Final Failure: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), 119 ffGoogle Scholar. According to Gibson, Stern's work is “of limited value to scholars.” I presume he means sociologists rather than historians.

3 Ibid., 354.

4 Ibid., 369.