| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War. By Michael Dobbs. (New York: Knopf, 2008. xvi, 426 pp. $28.95, ISBN 978-1-4000-4358-3.)
A moratorium on Cuban missile crisis scholarship would be understandable—but misguided. The importance of the crisis as the most dangerous moment of the Cold War, for one thing, remains undiminished. Moreover, even Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali's pathbreaking One Hell of a Gamble (1997) did not fill the glaring need for a comprehensive synthesis; since then, additional sources and monographs have appeared and only increased that need.	1
One can scarcely conceive of a better remedy than One Minute to Midnight. Michael Dobbs has combined magnificent research with an engaging style to place readers in the middle of the crisis as perhaps no book ever has. Proceeding hour by hour, indeed, devoting nearly 40 percent of the book to the single, climactic day of October 27, 1962, Dobbs deftly conveys the simultaneity of events and makes truly palpable how close the world came to the nuclear precipice.	. . .

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