What is the author's style in Thirteen Days; a Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy?

The author of this memoir, Thirteen Days, is Robert F. Kennedy or RFK, who is probably the most important participant on the American side of the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, after his brother, President John F. Kennedy or JFK. RFK has worked politically for his brother since 1953 and is at his side during every decision after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. At the time of the crisis, RFK is the U.S. Attorney General and often JFK's stand-in during discussions. RFK is conscious of playing the role of devil's advocate.

Thirteen Days is very much a "profile in courage" of the late president and the handful of men he gathers to give him advice as the world stands on the brink of nuclear obliteration. Profiles in Courage is JFK's Pulitzer Prize-winning book about courageous U.S. senators. It is a tribute to these people of wisdom, who ask difficult questions, make JFK defend his position, present different points of view, and are skeptical. Their efforts avert a third unintended and unwinnable world war. RFK writes as the premier insider, using diaries and recollections. He works on his memoir in the summer and fall of 1967, as the Vietnam War is escalating and he is breaking with JFK's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. RFK is assassinated in 1986 before he can address the basic moral question that he identifies. The question is, "What, if any, circumstance or justification gives this government or any government the moral right to bring its people and possibly all people under the shadow of nuclear destruction?" It seems clear that RFK's intention is to make thoughtful readers ponder this deeply.