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Want to Influence World Leaders?  Become a Historian

14 August 2015 Snider, Christy Leave a comment

Very interesting article by Nick Danforth on how Barbara Tuckman’s book, The Guns of August, helped convinced John F. Kennedy to not let the Cuban Missle Crisis turn into a nuclear war.

Source: Can History Save the World? – War on the Rocks

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