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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: David R. GibsonPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780691151311ISBN 10: 0691151318 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 29 July 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Language: English Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Excerpts ix Preface xi Chapter 1 - Introduction: Talk in Time of Crisis 1 Chapter 2 - The Future in Thought and Talk 24 Chapter 3 - The ExComm 49 Chapter 4 - The Response 74 Chapter 5 - The Blockade 109 Chapter 6 - The Deal 135 Chapter 7 - Conclusion 159 Appendix A - Timeline of Events and ExComm Meetings 167 Appendix B - Dramatis Personae 175 Appendix C - Conversation-Analytic Transcribing Conventions 177 Appendix D - The Audio Recordings 181 Notes 183 Bibliography 203 Index 213ReviewsWinner of the 2013 Melvin Pollner Prize, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section of the American Sociological Association [W]ith his thorough and incisive analysis of the ExComm meetings, David Gibson has provided a new, refreshing, and disturbing look at how US decision-makers responded to the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. --Asa McKercher, Dzplomacy & Statecraft For its empirical contribution alone, Talk at the Brink is required reading for scholars of Cold War history and American politics. The writing is witty and uncluttered, while the raw intimacy of the back-and-forth among ExComm members, as rendered by the painstakingly precise transcription and coding, makes for a rather riveting and eminently teachable experience. --Phaedra Daipha, American Journal of Sociology Gibson's Talk at the Brink is a stimulating and insightful contribution to scholarship on one of the single most important events in American history of the past sixty years--the Cuban Missile Crisis... The book is well worth a read, and a place on your bookshelf. --Erik Schneiderhan, Oxford University Press Winner of the 2013 Melvin Pollner Prize, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section of the American Sociological Association [W]ith his thorough and incisive analysis of the ExComm meetings, David Gibson has provided a new, refreshing, and disturbing look at how US decision-makers responded to the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. --Asa McKercher, Dzplomacy & Statecraft For its empirical contribution alone, Talk at the Brink is required reading for scholars of Cold War history and American politics. The writing is witty and uncluttered, while the raw intimacy of the back-and-forth among ExComm members, as rendered by the painstakingly precise transcription and coding, makes for a rather riveting and eminently teachable experience. --Phaedra Daipha, American Journal of Sociology Winner of the 2013 Melvin Pollner Prize, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2013 Melvin Pollner Prize, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section of the American Sociological Association [W]ith his thorough and incisive analysis of the ExComm meetings, David Gibson has provided a new, refreshing, and disturbing look at how US decision-makers responded to the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. --Asa McKercher, Dzplomacy & Statecraft Author InformationDavid R. Gibson is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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