At the End of the Day

Pre-publicity for the final volume of Harold Macmillan's memoirs, At the End of the Day, stressed that it would provide the British side of the Cuban missile crisis for the first time. The Churchillian model chosen, changes required by the Cabinet Office and Macmillan's desire to rebuke those political opponents who claimed that the crisis demonstrated a lack of British influence in Washington, however ensured a focus on his personal relationship with President Kennedy. His larding the text with contemporary observations from his diaries also skewed Macmillan's account and, in particular, underplayed the significance of British moves at the United Nations in New York to secure a credible United Nations inspection regime and a US guarantee of the inviolability of Cuba. Careful reconstruction of Macmillan's real-time experience of the Cuban missile crisis demonstrates the limitations of his own account of this event

Cabinet (room) · Economic history · Memoir · Missile · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Publicity · Sociology · Australian History and Society · History · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US

• Never a Dull Moment”

  Jonathan Colman•Diplomacy and Statecraft•2016

  Incluir item

• Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2011-2012

  Phyllis E Wachter, Aiko Yamashiro•Biography•2012

  Incluir item

• Toward “World Support” and “The Ultimate Judgment of History”

  Jonathan Colman•Journal of Cold War Studies•2019

  Incluir item

• An International History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

  Pippa Catterall, Peter Catterall et al.•International History of the…•2014

  Incluir item