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Essence of Decision Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Essence of Decision
Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
Graham Allison
Political Science / International Relations / General
The best single volume analyzing the defining moment in the nuclear age, the original edition of Essence of Decision is a classic work that has influenced generations of students, scholars, and policy makers. The fully revised second edition of this best-selling text includes comprehensive synthesis of all new evidence-including declassified Kennedy tapes and Soviet files. Not only revised, but completely rewritten, the new edition provides deeper and clearer answers to an enduring question: how should citizens understand the actions of their governments and political leaders?
Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University where he has taught for five decades.?Allison is a leading analyst of national security with special interests in nuclear weapons, Russia, China, and decision-making.
Philip Zelikow,faculty senior fellow, is the White Burkett Miller Emeritus Professor of History at?the University of Virginia, where he has also served as dean of the Graduate School and director of the Miller Center.?His scholarly work has focused on critical episodes in American and world history.?
| Publication Date: | 04 February 2027 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| ISBN-13: | 9798216380719 |
| Format: | Paperback softback |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Weight (oz): | 16.0 |