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The brilliant disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's doomed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs Cover Image Book

The brilliant disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's doomed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs / Jim Rasenberger.

JFK, Castro, and America's doomed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (portion title)
Rasenberger, Jim. (Author).

Summary:

A recounting of the Bay of Pigs Crisis drawing upon the author's father's connection to the events as they played out.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781416596509
  • ISBN: 141659650X
  • ISBN: 9781439100479
  • ISBN: 1439100470
  • Physical Description: xviii, 460 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-441) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
"The Bay of Pigs thing" -- "Balls were in the air" : Saturday April 15, 1961 -- Honeymoon: April 15-October 26, 1959 -- A program of covert action: November 3, 1959-January 19, 1961 -- Golden interlude: January 20-April 14, 1961 -- D-Day: April 15-April 19, 1961 -- Aftermath: April 20-December 31, 1962 -- "It could have been worse".

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Subject: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
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United States > Foreign relations > 1953-1961.
Cuba > History > 1961, Invasion.
United States > Foreign relations.
Cuba > Foreign relations.

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Marion Library 972.91 RAS (Text) 37810434972047 Adult Nonfiction Checked out 09/19/2024