{"product_id":"9780571353088-ten-days-in-harlem-fidel-castro-and-the-making-of-the-1960s","title":"Ten Days In Harlem Fidel Castro And The Making Of The 1960s","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Ten Days In Harlem Fidel Castro And The Making Of The 1960s\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Hall Simon\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780571353088\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 288 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 1\/4\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: History: Specific Events \u0026amp; Topics","brand":"Hall Simon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49596443263281,"sku":"IN-G-9780571353088","price":24.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780571353088-ten-days-in-harlem-fidel-castro-and-the-making-of-the-1960s","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}