Miami Paperback - 1998
by Joan Didion
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.
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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.
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- Title Miami
- Author Joan Didion
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, NY
- Date 1998-09-29
- ISBN 9780679781806 / 0679781803
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.16 x 5.18 x 0.68 in (20.73 x 13.16 x 1.73 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: South Atlantic
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: Florida
- Library of Congress subjects Cuban Americans - Florida - Miami, Miami (Fla.) - Social conditions
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98007127
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.868
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Citations
- Library Journal, 04/15/1999, Page 150
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