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Ten Days In Harlem Fidel Castro And The Making Of The 1960s
Ten Days In Harlem Fidel Castro And The Making Of The 1960s
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Description: Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. With its cool judgements and blackly comic sense of irony Hall's book is a rare pleasure to read. Dominic Sandbrook Literary Review A lively account Ten Days in Harlem doesn't stint on piquant detail. London Review OF Books' A perceptive thoroughly researched and readable study. Irish Times New York City September 1960. Fidel Castro - champion of the oppressed scourge of colonialism and leftist revolutionary arrives for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. His visit to the UN represents a golden opportunity to make his mark on the world stage. Fidel's shock arrival in Harlem is met with a rapturous reception from the local African American community. He holds court from the iconic Hotel Theresa as a succession of world leaders black freedom fighters and counter - cultural luminaries everyone from Nikita Khrushchev to Gamal Abdel Nasser Malcolm X to Allen Ginsberg come calling. Then during his landmark address to the UN General Assembly one of the longest speeches in the organisation's history he promotes the politics of anti - imperialism with a fervour and an audacity that makes him an icon of the 1960s. In this unforgettable slice of modern history Simon Hall reveals how these ten days were a foundational moment in the trajectory of the Cold War a turning point in the history of anti - colonial struggle and a launching pad for the social cultural and political tumult of the decade that followed. Hall delivers his entertaining taile with brio.'i Hall captures Castro's action - packed September 1960 soujourn in rich and compelling detail and argues persuasisively that its repercussions echoed deeply in the decades to come. NEW YORK Journal OF Books
Title: Ten Days In Harlem Fidel Castro And The Making Of The 1960s
Author(s): Hall Simon
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Barcode: 9780571353088
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 1/4/2022
Category: History: Specific Events & Topics
Description: Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. With its cool judgements and blackly comic sense of irony Hall's book is a rare pleasure to read. Dominic Sandbrook Literary Review A lively account Ten Days in Harlem doesn't stint on piquant detail. London Review OF Books' A perceptive thoroughly researched and readable study. Irish Times New York City September 1960. Fidel Castro - champion of the oppressed scourge of colonialism and leftist revolutionary arrives for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. His visit to the UN represents a golden opportunity to make his mark on the world stage. Fidel's shock arrival in Harlem is met with a rapturous reception from the local African American community. He holds court from the iconic Hotel Theresa as a succession of world leaders black freedom fighters and counter - cultural luminaries everyone from Nikita Khrushchev to Gamal Abdel Nasser Malcolm X to Allen Ginsberg come calling. Then during his landmark address to the UN General Assembly one of the longest speeches in the organisation's history he promotes the politics of anti - imperialism with a fervour and an audacity that makes him an icon of the 1960s. In this unforgettable slice of modern history Simon Hall reveals how these ten days were a foundational moment in the trajectory of the Cold War a turning point in the history of anti - colonial struggle and a launching pad for the social cultural and political tumult of the decade that followed. Hall delivers his entertaining taile with brio.'i Hall captures Castro's action - packed September 1960 soujourn in rich and compelling detail and argues persuasisively that its repercussions echoed deeply in the decades to come. NEW YORK Journal OF Books
Title: Ten Days In Harlem Fidel Castro And The Making Of The 1960s
Author(s): Hall Simon
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Barcode: 9780571353088
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 1/4/2022
Category: History: Specific Events & Topics