The Perfect Failure: Kennedy, Eisenhower, and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs

“[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.