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Cuban Missile Crisis, Robert McNamara, Max Hastings
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Muddling the Missile Crisis

The Abyss, a pop history treatment of the Cuban Missile Crisis, revives unhistorical myths in an effort to chalk the whole thing up to American hysteria, and to portray the bumbling JFK as having masterfully handled the crisis.

Do Sex Scandals Matter?
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Do Sex Scandals Matter?

Trump, Boebert, Gibson—or any candidate—might have moral character flaws, but candidates who are personally objectionable are often politically indispensable.