Description
Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean.
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.
Author: Joan Didion
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/29/1998
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.18w x 0.68d
ISBN13: 9780679781806
ISBN10: 0679781803
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | History & Theory | General
- History | United States | State & Local | General
- Political Science | American Government | State
About the Author
Joan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and seven previous books of nonfiction.