The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy:  The Great Crises, Volumes 1-3. By Philip D. Zelikow, Timothy Naftali, and Ernest R. May, editors. The Miller Center of Public Affairs, 2001.ISBN-10: 039304954X, ISBN-13: 978-0393049541.

The most remarkable window that Americans have ever had into how their country is governed. These volumes mark the beginning of a major publishing event: the complete transcription of recently declassified presidential recordings, annotated by a remarkable group of scholars working with the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs.

John F. Kennedy: Volumes 1-3 covers the period of July-October 1962 and reveals Kennedy and top advisers negotiating such events as U.S. covert action in Brazil, racial unrest at the University of Mississippi, and the most dangerous moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The books are accompanied by a multimedia CD-ROM (runs on both Windows and Macintosh computers) that features the full audio recordings with links to official meeting schedules, notes, and other information. Together the books and CD will allow entrance into the top-level decision making of the most powerful nation in the world during wrenching judgments about war and peace, civil rights, the domestic and global economy, and much more.

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Visit President Recordings Program Official Website

Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties secretly recorded just under 5,000 hours of conversations. This site is designed as a service to the research community by making freely available all of the presidential recordings, along with relevant research materials, so that scholars, teachers, students, and the public can hear and use these remarkable tapes for themselves.

From Publishers Weekly:

Scholars Timothy Naftali, Philip Zelikow and Ernest May, in collaboration with the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, present the first three volumes of The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy, Volumes 1-3, the Great Crises, transcripts of recently declassified recordings of White House meetings, annotated by various scholars. Multimedia CD-ROMs containing the audio recordings and official notes are also included.

Readers and listeners will be privy to Oval Office debates behind decisions about the Berlin crisis, the Cuban missile crisis, the Old Miss civil rights events and many other key moments in the domestic and international politics of the early 1960s. Opinions, advice, quips, arguments and questions come straight from the mouths of such key players as Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower, JFK and Robert Kennedy. Politicos and professional and scholars will be delighted to have access to this material.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

About the Author:

The Miller Center Presidential Recordings Project Board includes Stephen Ambrose, Michael Beschloss, Taylor Branch, Robert Dallek, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Allen Matusow, Richard Neustadt, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Robert Schulzinger.

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