num_pages: 228
description: “[Higgins’s] solid research in memoirs, declassified documents and interviews leads to stark and damning conclusions.” ―Stanley Hoffman, New York Times Book Review Higgins, a specialist in studying military disasters, gives the first fully documented account of the plans, mistakes and compromises that led to the fiasco at the Bay of Pigs in 1961.
language: English
title: The Perfect Failure: Kennedy, Eisenhower, and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs
titlecomplete: The Perfect Failure: Kennedy, Eisenhower, and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs
ratings_count: 15
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company