MACMILLAN The Cuban Missile Crisis

Product Description Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis happen? How was it resolved? By focusing on the roles of a number of key individuals, such as JFK, Robert Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, and by using recently declassified materials, this book frames answers to these questions. In so doing, it presents a cluster of new findings and arguments, including a fresh interpretation of Khrushchev's motives for putting missiles in Cuba, new information on the mystery surrounding Senator Kenneth Keating's secret sources, and evidence indicating that JFK planned to carry out a military strike on Cuba at the start of the crisis. Review "At times serious, funny, irreverent, and always thoughtful, this is the most challenging book yet written about deafness--challenging in making us think better and in breaking new ground. Clearly a must-read."-Lennard Davis, author of "Obsession: A History" "Both rhetoric and disability studies are enhanced by Brueggemann's juxtapositions in Deaf Subjects by, for instance, using rhetorical theory to illuminate the performative dimensions of American Sign Language and the Nazi T-4 project. Fascinating and essential reading for students and scholars in both fields."-Anne Ruggles Gere, University of Michigan Brueggemann brings impressive credentials to this project. . .providing an interesting discussion of the irony that deaf children are being mainstreamed and kept away from ASL-"CHOICE","These essays testify to the wonderful honesty that this author brings to all her work. I suspect it has to do, too, with the fact that Brueggemann does not shy away from asking the hard questions." "This collection, which Brueggemann sets forth as a commonplace book, is that and much more. Her work-readable, insightful, poignant, and smart-has done much to teach us all. Like Burke setting out his "Grammar" and "Rhetoric," she has given us with this text and her body of work a new understanding of the language of the 'people of the eye'."-Rhetoric Review, About the Author MARK J. WHITE