One of the giants of American journalism now re-creates an unforgettable time–in which the whole world feared extinction. High Noon in the Cold War captures the Cuban Missile Crisis in a new light, from inside the hearts and minds of the famous men who provoked and, in the nick of time, resolved the confrontation. Using his personal memories of covering the conflict, and gathering evidence from recent records and new scholarship and testimony, Max Frankel corrects widely held misconceptions about the game of “nuclear chicken” played by John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev in October 1962, when Soviet missiles were secretly planted in Cuba and aimed at the United States. High Noon in the Cold War portrays an embattled young American presidentnot jaunty and callow as widely believed, but increasingly calm and statesmanlikeand a Russian ruler who was not only a “wily old peasant” but an insecure belligerent desperate to achieve credibility. Here, too, are forgotten heroes like John McCone, the conservative Republican CIA head whose intuition made him a crucial figure in White House debates. In detailing the disastrous miscalculations of the two superpowers (the U.S. thought the Soviets would never deploy missiles to Cuba; the Soviets thought the U.S. would have to acquiesce) and how Kennedy and Khrushchev beat back hotheads in their own councils, this fascinating book re-creates the whole story of the scariest encounter of the Cold War, as told by a master reporter.

High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

History

Fränkel, Max

Americas

Presidio Press

High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Krushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Since 1949, when Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Max Frankel began to write for The New York Times, readers have looked to his work as a lens through which they could witness America's role in a rapidly changing world. In this vivid and unforgettable memoir, Frankel chronicles the times of his extraordinary life as he experienced them...within the context of the news stories that defined an era. A quintessentially American story, The Times of My Life traces Frankel's riveting personal relationship with history...his harrowing escape from Nazi Germany...his life as an immigrant on the streets of New York...and his extraordinary half-century-long career at The Times. In a rich first-person account that moves from Hitler's Berlin to Cold War Moscow, from Castro's Havana to the newsroom of America's most influential newspaper, this powerful, compelling work interweaves Frankel's personal and professional lives with the era's greatest stories, from Sputnik to the Pentagon Papers to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. And it reveals Frankel's fascinating off-the-record encounters with Nikita Khrushchev, Henry Kissinger, John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and a host of other history-makers who shaped their times--and ours. Guiding readers through Hitler's Berlin, Khrushchev's Moscow, Castro's Havana, and the Washington of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, THE TIMES OF MY LIFE reevaluates the Cold War, and interweaves Frankel's personal and professional life with the greatest stories of the era. --&gt;

The Times of My Life and My Life with The Times

Humor & Entertainment

Delta

In this remarkable memoir, The New York Times's Max Frankel tells his life story the way he lived it--in tandem with the big news stories of our time. "I escaped into America, and beyond it. The idea of America became my proud passport. A passion to conform made me a patriot. The discovery of words turned me into a skeptic. And the journalist's press pass sent me vaulting across borders to gain a spectacular perspective on our era. Like the astronauts floating in outer space, I've had a rare glimpse of the earth in my times, and it gave me an irrepressible urge to record the journey." Max Frankel started to write for The New York Times as a student at Columbia in 1949, and during the next half century he held just about every important position on the paper--foreign correspondent, Washington bureau chief, editorials editor, and executive editor. When The Times of My Life begins, Max Frankel is a boy in Nazi Germany; we experience the terror of his wartime escape with his heroic mother, their immigrant lives in New York, and a teacher's inspired decision that he could belatedly learn to read English if he learned to write it. And so Max Frankel found his career. His book, like his life, moves through Hitler's Berlin, Khrushchev's Moscow, Castro's Havana, and the Washington of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. It reevaluates the Cold War and interweaves Frankel's personal and professional lives with the era's greatest stories, from Sputnik to the Pentagon Papers, from the building of the Berlin Wall to its collapse, all the while tracking the tensions of managing the world's greatest newspaper. Beautifully written, filled with anecdotes and insights, The Times of My Life evokes an unparalleled life as it embraces America in our time.

The Times of My Life and My Life with the Times

Random House]

Ha-Meir La-Aretz Ve-la-Darim is a two sided book with an anthology of High Holy Day sermons written and delivered by Max "Meir ben Isak" Frankel on one side and and a mouth-watering collection of "Torat Imekha," Purim recipes from the kitchen of Gloria "Golda bas Shmuel Hayim HaLevi" Frankel on the other. Max Frankel Born in 1928 as the youngest of Isak and Breintze Golde Frankel's five children, Max was an exclusively Yiddish speaking twelve-year-old who immigrated to the United States after escaping Nazi occupied Austria with his parents in 1940. A graduate of Yeshiva Israel Salanter (now SAR Academy in Riverdale, New York), Max went on to attend Yeshiva University's high school and college. A cum laude graduate of the Teachers Institute of Yeshiva University and the Yeshiva College of Liberal Arts, Max served form 48 years as a master educator and educational administrator in Rochester, Erie, Boston, Philadelphia, and finally, Cincinnati. When Max retired after 25 years as the Executive Director of Cincinnati's Bureau of Jewish Education, he was the most senior in length of service of all directors of Bureaus and Central Agencies for Jewish Education in the United States. Gloria Frankel Born in 1933 and the oldest of Hyman and Jennie Hurwitz's two children, Gloria's family lived in LeRoy, New York when she was a little girl until her parents moved the family to Rochester to provide a more suitable Jewish environment. Raised in the aftermath of the Great Depression in a typically blue collar family, Gloria's Jewish education tended to reflect the norms of her generation. With little more than a melamed to teach her the fundamentals, most of Gloria's Jewish education is credited to the example of her parents and the value they placed on the other essentials of Jewish life. Married at age nineteen, Gloria proudly asserts that the entirety of her life has been dedicated to raising her family and building a true and faithful Jewish home. Living in Cincinnati since 1971, Gloria is the proud mother of four, and the even prouder grandmother of ten grandchildren.

Ha-Meir La-Aretz Ve-La-Darim: An Anthology of High Holy Day Sermons Written and Delivered by Max "Meir ben Isak" Frankel

Religion & Spirituality

Frankel, David

Frankel, Gloria

Judaism

David Frankel

Media Madness: The Revolution So Far

Business & Money

Catto Conference on Journalism and Society (2nd : 1998 : Aspen, Colo.)

Industries

Aspen Inst Human Studies

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Die Inschriften von Pergamon (German Edition)

Schuchhardt, Carl

Fabricius, Ernst

Europe

Nabu Press

A quintessentially American story. The Times of My Life traces Frankel's riveting personal relationship with history, his harrowing escape from Nazi Germany... his life as an immigrant in New York... and his extraordinary half-century long career at the New York Times. A rich first person acount full of off-the-record encounters with Nikita Khrushchev, Henry Kissinger, John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and many other history makers who shaped the course of the later part of the twentieth century

The Times of My Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Airplay Inc

Einundzwanzig Beilagen (German Edition)

Böckh, August

Ancient Civilizations

de Gruyter

Die attischen Geschworenengerichte: Ein Beitrag zum attischen Staatsrecht (German Edition)

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