Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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book memoir non-fiction book

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis is Robert F. Kennedy’s firsthand account of the tense 1962 standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, offering an inside view of the Kennedy administration’s decision-making during the nuclear crisis.

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Thirteen Days (2000 film) ×1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book → memoir → non-fiction book →
author	Robert F. Kennedy →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
depicts	1962 Cuban Missile Crisis →
describes	U.S. naval quarantine of Cuba → internal policy debates in the U.S. government → risk of nuclear war → secret negotiations with the Soviet Union →
describesRoleOf	Attorney General of the United States → Joint Chiefs of Staff → U.S. State Department →
focusesOn	White House deliberations → decision-making in the Kennedy administration →
genre	historical non-fiction → political memoir →
hasAdaptation	Thirteen Days (2000 film) →
hasPerspective	American viewpoint →
hasSubject	John F. Kennedy administration → Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev → U.S.–Cuba relations →
historicalPeriodCovered	Cold War era →
influenced	public understanding of the Cuban Missile Crisis →
intendedAudience	general readers → students of history and politics →
language	English →
literaryForm	prose →
mainSubject	Cold War → Cuban Missile Crisis → United States–Soviet Union relations → nuclear crisis →
narrativePerspective	first-person account →
notableFor	insider perspective on U.S. crisis management →
originalMedium	print →
pageCountApproximate	224 →
portrays	Executive Committee of the National Security Council → John F. Kennedy → Robert F. Kennedy →
publicationYear	1969 →
publisher	W. W. Norton & Company →
setting	Washington, D.C. →
timeSpanOfEventsDescribed	October 1962 →
title	Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis →
workLocationOfAuthorDuringEvents	Washington, D.C. →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis ("Thirteen Days (2000 film)") →	hasAdaptation
Robert F. Kennedy →	notableWork
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis →	title