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Uses contemporary documents to explore the development of the Cold War struggle, the consequences in the 1950s and 1960s, and the lasting effects on American social and cultural patterns.

Examines the Cuban missile crisis and separates myth from reality. Reveals what really happened in the White House during the two weeks of the crisis, highlighting the contributions of key players such as Robert Kennedy, Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, Llewellyn Thompson, McGeorge Bundy, and Adlai Stevenson. Also details JFK's resistance to war, the bad advice he received, and what could have happened instead.

Sarah Zuckerman's life is about to change when she receives a mysterious letter about her friend Jenny Jones, who died ten years earlier in a plane crash after the two girls had written letters to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov seeking peace in the Cold War.

A study of America's involvement in the Cold War, tracing the course of the conflict as it moved from periods of crisis to relative stability, and discussing events that led to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.

Traces the friendship between all-American girl Jenny and Sarah, the shy daughter of troubled parents, during the height of the Cold War, a bond that is nearly shattered by Jenny's unexpected fame and plane crash death that Sarah learns a decade later might have been a hoax.

Uses contemporary documents to explore the development of the Cold War struggle, the consequences in the 1950s and 1960s, and the lasting effects on American social and cultural patterns.

Vladimir Lenin presents an overview of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' socialist program; Marx's philosophical, economic, and social teachings; and the components, sources, and historical development of Marxism.

A reprint of the early twentieth-century text in which Russian leader V. I. Lenin elaborates the principles upon which the Bolshevik, or Communist Party was founded.

Discusses the continuing political struggles dealt with by President John F. Kennedy in the days following the agreement of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba in October, 1962.

Uses contemporary documents to explore the development of the Cold War struggle, the consequences in the 1950s and 1960s, and the lasting effects on American social and cultural patterns.