Foremost, President Kennedy emerges as less of an accomplished figure in foreign-policy planning than Camelot legend has it, and Khrushchev as less of a villain than we had assumed after he had so dastardly deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba and threatened us with war over Berlin. The Crisis Years, centering principally on Cuba, Berlin and the American-Soviet nuclear-policy confusions and miscalculations, belongs to the modern (and somewhat revisionist) school of postwar history, and it is bound to revive basic arguments and debates of three decades ago - which should be most useful in the light of newly available information concerning events between 19. Beschloss, who has written the acclaimed Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair, now offers us what he calls "The Years of Kennedy and Khrushchev," which is a sequel drawn on a vastly broader canvas with an extraordinary wealth of human detail. Beschloss is a remarkable tour de force in Cold War history, a superbly documented and argued account of probably the most important and dangerous period in the nuclear age. THIS NEW book by young historian Michael R.
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