Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface: Kennedy's Wars -- Dramatis Personae -- Introduction -- I. The Cold War and How to Fight It -- 1. Liberal Anticommunism -- 2. Beyond Massive Retaliation -- 3. The Third World Alternative -- 4. Policies and People -- II. Berlin and Nuclear Strategy -- 5. The New Strategy -- 6. To Vienna and Back -- 7. The Berlin Anomaly -- 8. A Contest of Resolve -- 9. The Wall -- 10. Tests and Tension -- 11. Flexible Response -- 12. Berlin to Cuba -- III. Cuba -- 13. Removing Castro -- 14. A Deniable Plan -- 15. An Undeniable Fiasco -- 16. Still Castro -- 17. Mongoose -- 18. Searching for Missiles -- 19. The Options Debated -- 20. Blockade -- 21. Military Steps -- 22. Political Steps -- 23. The Denouement -- 24. A Crisis Managed -- 25. Aftermath -- 26. Back to Square One -- IV. Alliances and Détente -- 27. The Sino-Soviet Split -- 28. Toward a Test Ban -- 29. The Test Ban Treaty -- 30. Measured Response -- V. Vietnam -- 31. Counterinsurgency -- 32. Laos -- 33. Commitment without Combat -- 34. Deciding not to Decide -- 35. The Taylor Report -- 36. Decisions -- 37. The Influence of Laos -- 38. In the Dark -- 39. Coercion and Clients -- 40. Diem's Assassination -- 41. Kennedy to Johnson -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.