Contents

Preface

Prologue: April 30, 1960

1. “I’ve Had It Now!”

2. Eisenhower’s Dilemma

3. The Espionage Assignment

4. Building a Covert Operation

5. “The Most Soul-Searching Decision”

6. “Every Blade of Grass”

7. Khrushchev’s Ultimatum

8. Camp David

9. “The Great Thaw”

10. “I Would Like to Resign”

11. Debacle at Paris

12. Cold War

13. Final Reckoning

14. Who Shattered Détente?

Epilogue: After the Storm

Image Gallery

Appendix

Historiographical Note

General Sources

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

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