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The Brilliant Disaster - Jfk, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Paperback)
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The Brilliant Disaster - Jfk, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Paperback)
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THE BRILLIANT DISASTER is a remarkably gripping account of
America's Bay of Pigs crisis, drawing on long-hidden CIA documents
and delivering, as never before, the vivid truth--and
consequences--of five pivotal days in April 1961.
At the heart of the Bay of Pigs crisis stood President John F.
Kennedy, and journalist Jim Rasenberger traces what Kennedy knew,
thought, and said as events unfolded. He examines whether Kennedy
was manipulated by the CIA into approving a plan that would
ultimately involve the American military. He also draws compelling
portraits of the other figures who played key roles in the drama:
Fidel Castro, who shortly after achieving power visited New York
City and was cheered by thousands (just months before the United
States began plotting his demise); Dwight Eisenhower, who
originally ordered the secret program, then later disavowed it;
Allen Dulles, the CIA director who may have told Kennedy about the
plan before he was elected president (or so Richard Nixon
suspected); and Richard Bissell, the famously brilliant "deus ex
machina" who ran the operation for the CIA--and took the blame when
it failed. Beyond the short-term fallout, Rasenberger demonstrates,
the Bay of Pigs gave rise to further and greater woes, including
the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and even, possibly, the
assassination of John Kennedy.
Written with elegant clarity and narrative verve, "The Brilliant
Disaster "is the most complete account of this event to date,
providing not only a fast-paced chronicle of the disaster but an
analysis of how it occurred--a question as relevant today as
then--and how it profoundly altered the course of modern American
history.
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