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From the book's dust jacket: The Improbable Triumvirate KENNEDY-KHRUSHCHEV-POPE JOHN An Asterisk to the History of a Hopeful Year, 1962-1963 Norman Cousins For thirteen months—beginning with the resolution of the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962 and ending with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963—a new spirit of optimism was at work in the world. The dramatic end of that crisis signaled an upturn in the prospects for peace. Three men came to symbolize these new prospects—President Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, and Pope John. This book deals with some of the…
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1 edition- Other · English · 1972The improbable triumvirate: John F. Kennedy, Pope John, Nikita Khrushchev.W. W. Norton · 171 pages · 9780393053968
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