Annotated Bibliography
Primary Sources
Dobbis, Michael; One Minute to Midnight; 2008; New York, NY; Alfred A. Knopf.
This source helped me because it gave me lots of more detailed information than K. Wiersma and B. Larson, “Fourteen Days in October”. It is a most complete and accurate published account of the crisis, which helped me place it in its historical context and provided me with a lot of quotes.
Wiersma, Kurt, and Ben Larson; Fourteen Days in October: Cuban Missile Crisis; 1997; 27 Nov. 2010 https://library.thinkquest.org/11046/media/fourteen_days_in_october.pdf.
This source was extremely helpful because it provided me with substantial background knowledge that helped me understand the crisis even more. It proved very useful throughout my research.
Secondary Sources
Frankle, Max; High Noon in the Cold War; 2004; New York, NY; Ballantine Book.
This book helped give me a little bit of background knowledge but not as much as K. Wiersma and B. Larson, “Fourteen Days in October”.
Woods, Randall; LBJ: Architect of American Ambition; 2006; New York, NY; Randall Woods.
It complemented the details I learned from the primary sources.
Fursenko, Aleksandr and Timothy Naftali; One Hell of a Gamble: Castro, Khrushchev, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis; 1997; New York, NY; W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
This book gave me more knowledge from the Soviet perspective. It helped substantially in finalizing my research and thesis statement.
Dallek, Robert; An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963; 2003; New York, NY; Back Bay Books/ Little Brown Company.
This gave me additional detailed insight inside the crisis. It helped somewhat.
