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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1416596534
ISBN-13
9781416596530
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109072587
Product Key Features
Book Title
Brilliant Disaster : Jfk, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Modern / 20th Century, International Relations / General, Presidents & Heads of State, Political, Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
15.6 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-004178
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"This is history at its best: meticulous research distilled into luminous prose and a gripping narrative. This is not only the finest book ever written on the Bay of Pigs fiasco, but also one of the most balanced, keen-eyed surveys of the early days of the Kennedy administration. A page-turner that packs as much of a punch as the best of fiction thrillers, Rasenberger's The Brilliant Disaster lays bare many a bleached bone, but, in the process, also provides readers with invaluable treasure: a clearer understanding of the relation between past, present, and future." -- Carlos Eire, National Book Award winning author of Waiting for Snow in Havana , "Important and engrossing work, offering updated history owing to recently declassified documents." -Library Journal (starred review), "This is history at its best: meticulous research distilled into luminous prose and a gripping narrative. This is not only the finest book ever written on the Bay of Pigs fiasco, but also one of the most balanced, keen-eyed surveys of the early days of the Kennedy administration. A page-turner that packs as much of a punch as the best of fiction thrillers, Rasenberger's The Brilliant Disaster lays bare many a bleached bone, but, in the process, also provides readers with invaluable treasure: a clearer understanding of the relation between past, present, and future." - Carlos Eire, National Book Award winning author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, "This is history at its best: meticulous research distilled into luminous prose and a gripping narrative. This is not only the finest book ever written on the Bay of Pigs fiasco, but also one of the most balanced, keen-eyed surveys of the early days of the Kennedy administration. A page-turner that packs as much of a punch as the best of fiction thrillers, Rasenberger's The Brilliant Disaster lays bare many a bleached bone, but, in the process, also provides readers with invaluable treasure: a clearer understanding of the relation between past, present, and future." -- Carlos Eire, National Book Award winning author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, "This is history at its best: meticulous research distilled into luminous prose and a gripping narrative. This is not only the finest book ever written on the Bay of Pigs fiasco, but also one of the most balanced, keen-eyed surveys of the early days of the Kennedy administration. A page-turner that packs as much of a punch as the best of fiction thrillers, Rasenberger's The Brilliant Disaster lays bare many a bleached bone, but, in the process, also provides readers with invaluable treasure: a clearer understanding of the relation between past, present, and future." Carlos Eire, National Book Award winning author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, "A balanced, engrossing account of the U.S-backed invasion of Fidel Castro's Cuba....succeeds admirably in offering a nuanced view of the entire botched operation." -Kirkus (starred review), "While certainly not the first history of the invasion, The Brilliant Disaster is among the finest. Its context is richly detailed, its tempo novelistic. Forthright and accessible, it delineates a convoluted chain of events leading to humiliation and tragedy." - Miami Herald, "If you like Mad Men, spy novels, and brilliant writing, you'll love The Brilliant Disaster. I'f you're new to any of these, consider Jim Rasenberger your guide to one of the most fascinating and dramatic episodes of America, post-Korea, pre Vietnam and the Cold War. He has written an amazing account that speeds along, one dramatic cloak and dagger scene after another, all judiciously reported. The people in his book come to life, vividly-you hear them, see them, and understand them, although you may not agree with them. This is highly entertaining and engrossing history." -Doug Stanton, author of Horse Soldiers, "What I love about Jim Rasenberger's richly detailed, startlingly revisionist account of the Bay of Pigs invasion is his sheer storytelling ability, the wonderful, steady march of plot and counterplot, of heroes and foils. His tale is chock full of larger-than-life characters--from JFK to Castro, mafia bossses, and the steely-eyed, hypersmart men of the New Frontier. The Brilliant Disaster is what history ought to be: sharply drawn and with a constant eye on the big picture." -S. C. Gwynne, author of Empire of the Summer Moon
Dewey Decimal
972.9106/4
Synopsis
A "balanced, engrossing account" ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review) of the Bay of Pigs crisis drawing on long-hidden CIA documents and delivering the vivid truth 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.
LC Classification Number
F1788.R275 2011
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