Zelikow, Philip

Explores the choices made by world leaders "that molded the contemporary world, looking at key moments of decision, the might-have-beens, and the human beings working through them, and explores both what happened and what could have happened, to show how one world ended and another took form"--Adapted from dust jacket.

Presents the complete transcripts of meetings and conversations secretly recorded by President John F. Kennedy between the summer of 1962 and the end of the Cuban missile crisis on October 28, 1962, and includes a multimedia CD-ROM.