Cuba Confidential

Informationen zum Autor Ann Louise Bardach is a PEN award-winning investigative journalist who has covered Cuba for more than a decade for The New York Times! Vanity Fair! where she was a Contributing Editor for many years! and many other publications. She currently writes for Newsweek International and is the editor of Cuba: A Traveler's Literary Companion and is a Visiting Professor of International Journalism at the Univesity of California at Santa Barbara. Klappentext This portrait of the 20th century's wiliest political survivor and his fiefdom tells of the shattered families and warring personalities that lie at the heart of the 43-year standoff between Miami and Havana. Zusammenfassung An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth cenutry's wiliest political survivor and his fiefdom, Cuba Confidential is the gripping story of the shattered families and warring personalities that lie at the heart of the forty-three-year standoff between Miami and Havana. With a decade of firsthand access to the crooks, assassins, and politicians who have made US-Cuban history - from Fidel Castro to the family of Robert Vesco to the inner circles of Jeb Bush - Bardach exposes the ruthless tactics on both sides of the conflict, and the devastating human consequences on both shores.

Product details

• Authors: Ann Louise Bardach, Bardach Ann Louise
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.08.2004
• EAN: 9780141018003
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101800-3
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 1 mm x 1 mm x 1 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Cuba, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999