Thirteen days – A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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Thirteen days – A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

EDITION:
YEAR: 1999
AUTHOR: Robert F. Kennedy
PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton & Company

SUMMARY:

This memoir by Robert Kennedy, Attorney General and brother of the US President at the time, describes the leadership and decision processes in the White House during a period when the world came close to destruction through nuclear war. The differing approaches of the military and the President to the crisis provide an interesting contrast in moral reasoning. There are also many lessons for leadership in a crisis and more generally in relationships with bureaucracy.

Summary taken from Vincent Fairfax Fellowship at the Melbourne Business School: https://sites.google.com/site/vffpreadings/home/books

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