By the time the Cuban missile crisis hatched in October, the book had sold over 250,000 copies and was still on the New York Times bestseller list, where it would remain for nearly a year and earn ...

Sept. 13, 2011 -- President Kennedy, a student of history and President Lincoln, joked darkly after his triumph in the Cuban Missile Crisis that it might be a good night to go to the theater.

On October 27, 1962, the 12th day of the Cuban missile crisis, a bellicose and rattled Fidel Castro asked Nikita Khrushchev, his patron, to destroy America. “I believe that the imperialists ...