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Extraordinary. . . . As gripping as any fiction. Dobbs is an impeccable researcher and reporter. -- The Christian Science Monitor A book with sobering new information about the world's only superpower nuclear confrontation--as well as contemporary relevance . . . Filled with insights that will change the views of experts and help inform a new generation. --Richard Holbrooke, The New York Times Book Review Riveting and highly informative, One Minute to Midnight portrays the intense human drama of mankind on the brink of an unthinkable war. -- The Philadelphia Inquirer Gripping.... A significant contribution to our understanding of that perilous autumn. -- Bloomberg News [Dobbs] succeeds brilliantly, marshaling diverse sources to relate an intensely human story of Americans, Russians and Cubans caught up in what the late historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. termed 'the most dangerous moment in human history' . . . [Filled] with memorable characters in extraordinary circumstances an

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Michael Dobbs is a reporter for the Washington Post, who devoted much of his journalistic career to covering the collapse of communism. He was the Post's bureau chief in Warsaw (1980-82), Paris (1983-86) and Moscow (1988-1993). He has held fellowships at Harvard and Princeton University and is the author of three books- Down with Big Brother (1996), Madeleine Albright (1999) and Saboteurs (2004). Down with Big Brother was a runner-up for the 1997 PEN award for non-fiction.

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