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This review is from: The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Krushchev, 1960-1963 (Paperback)
Over a decade has passed since "The Crisis Years" was published. Since then, additional details about The Cuban Missile Crisis as well as JFK's personal life have floated into public view. Yet, despite the availability of this "new" information, even a cursory re-reading of excerpts from "The Crisis Years" confirms how accurate, comprehensive and riveting this account of two Cold War titans remains.Moving at the fast clip of a smoothly written novel, this exhaustive summary of the Kennedy Years focuses on the thorny foreign policy issues that beset the Kennedy Team, some possibly of their own making. Beschloss does a wonderful job fleshing out the pros and cons of particular policy decisions as well as the personal interactions between the president and some of his key advisers, and offers plenty of nuance with regard to the nature of communications between Washington and Moscow during the Missile Crisis. Perhaps the biggest single revelation in "The Crisis Years" was JFK's relationship with "Dr. Feelgood" and the extent to which the president was medicated on a regular basis, even as he prepared for the Vienna Summit. In our post-Watergate, post-Clinton era, one wonders whether public disclosure of JFK's steady reliance on pharmaceuticals would have been enough to push Nixon into the "win" column - and what that would have meant in terms of executing plans for the Bay of Pigs invasion, with all its fallout. "The Crisis Years" has already stood the test of time. It will continue to do so for years to come. I recommend it to anyone who wants the unadorned facts - good and bad - about America's most legendary president.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Simply Excellent but not for the Time Constrained,
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This review is from: The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Krushchev, 1960-1963 (Paperback)
When it comes to anything presidential, Michael Beschloss simply cannot write a bad book. He's an absolute expert in this area and also a fan of diary like detail. The book is very well written but quite long because of his bias towards telling the COMPLETE story. Given that, it is a tribute to his skills as a writer and story-teller that this book became a bestseller. The same heft by another author may not have sold so well. All said, it is a very fine read indeed.
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