ISBN: 9780679781806

It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro''s enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without success. It is where the bitt… More...

It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro''s enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without success. It is where the bitter opera of Cuban exile intersects with the cynicism of U. S. foreign policy. It is a city whose skyrocketing murder rate is fueled by the cocaine trade, racial discontent, and an undeclared war on the island ninety miles to the south. As Didion follows Miami''s drift into a Third World capital, she also locates its position in the secret history of the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs to the Reagan doctrine and from the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate break-in. Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence. | Miami by Joan Didion Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Essays & Collections P10103, Joan Didion<

ISBN: 9780679781806

Paperback, [PU: Random House USA Inc], With her usual sharp eye for the realities of American life, Joan Didion explores an American city of glitter and glamour, a city of racial tension … More...

Paperback, [PU: Random House USA Inc], With her usual sharp eye for the realities of American life, Joan Didion explores an American city of glitter and glamour, a city of racial tension and fast money whose culture, history, and state of mind are inextricably linked with Cuba, only 90 miles away. An Editor's Choice selection of the New York Times and Time., Literary Essays, History Of The Americas, Urban Communities, Social & Cultural Anthropology, Political Science & Theory, Regional Government, International Relations, Local History, Travel & Holiday Guides, Guidebooks<

1998, ISBN: 9780679781806

Buch, Softcover, [PU: Vintage Books], Vintage Books, 1998