In the wake of the Iraq invasion, it is wise to remember an international incident nearly 40 years ago that also involved a third world country with weapons on mass destruction. Professor White shows that both the Kennedy and the Khrushchev adminstrations, after fumbling at the start, were able to balance and sort out a very deadly game of nuclear chess. The recent film Thirteen Days shows the American side, but White expands to show the game being played in the Kremlin as well.

Professor White writes in a very lean manner and his conclusions are well grounded. There is no better introduction to the issues behind and the events unfurling during the missile crisis.

the other missiles of october: eisenhower, kennedy, and the jupiters, 1957-1963

Mrs. Hickock has good reason to be nervous about leaving her son Dylan alone with his father while she heads to Egypt to for five months to complete her doctoral dissertation. Mr. Hickock has always been a little peculiar: he has a habit of spending hours in their garage, the place where he lets all of his "crazy ideas incubate and hatch", obsessing over a particular topic. Whenever Dylan's dad is curious about anything he sits in the garage reading every book written on the subject taking copious notes until his curiosity is satisfied. For the past few months, aside from acting strange after returning from a camping trip on Mount Saint Helens, he has been on good behavior to not give Dylan's mother any reason to cancel her trip. But as soon as the drop his mother off at the airport, Dylan's father sees an article on the front page of the paper that grabs his attention and he quickly becomes obsessed with another subject: cryptids, animals that are not proven to exist.

Dylan is shocked when his father joins an expedition of Bigfoot experts, professional trackers, and other cryptid enthusiasts to look for Sasquatch, the most infamous of all cryptids on Mount Saint Helens. With the help of an eccentric former field biologist, Samuel Johnson, Dylan follows the expedition to make sure that his crazy father stays out of trouble. Suddenly Mount Saint Helens is about to erupt and the men leading the expedition are not as reliable as they once seemed. Dylan realizes that his father may not be crazy and that Sasquatch may actually exist! This is an exciting page-turner with many twists and turns. Fans of adventure novels and anyone interested in the myth of Sasquatch will definitely be pleased!

Sasquatch is an awsome book which I could feel the story in life. Also, it is very realistic science fiction. The theme of the entire story is exicting.This story really make me imagainate the picture of each scene in the stroy. When I first began to read it, I can't stop without I finish the entire story. I would recommend this book to ages 11 to 15.

A 5th grade teacher in our school read "Sasquatch" to her class at the beginning of the school year, and suddenly it become the most requested book in our elemementary school library...the only problem was, we didn't have any copies...yet.

Now that we have few copies, it's still one of our most requested books.

Roland Smith has done an excellent job of weaving together three famous Washington State legends, the state where we live, into one extremely exciting adventure, that keeps building up to the very end. Two of those legends are--obviously--the Sasquatch and Mount Saint Helens, but you'll have to read the book to discover the third. To tell you now would spoil 1/3 of your fun in reading this thrilling book.

Whether you consider this title realistic fiction or fantasy will depend entirely on your view of the Sasquatch (or Bigfoot). I prefer to see it as a fantasy, but that doesn't take away from the excitement of this book. This is a "guys" book, that girls will also enjoy reading.