Fighting Over Fidel - The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution

About the author

Rafael Rojas is professor at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics in Mexico City. He is one of Cuba's most distinguished cultural critics and a renowned scholar of Latin American history.

Summary

New York in the 1960s was a hotbed for progressive causes of every stripe, including women's liberation, civil rights, opposition to the Vietnam War--and the Cuban Revolution. Fighting over Fidel brings this turbulent cultural moment to life by telling the story of the New York intellectuals who championed and opposed Castro's revolution. Setting

Additional text

"Rojas's discussion of the American left-wing intellectual support for the Cuban Revolution is a stimulating invitation to revisit a seminal period in the development of the US left."---Samuel Farber, Jacobin

Product details

• Authors: Rafael Rojas, Rafael Rojas, Rojas Rafael
• Assisted by: Carl Good (Translation), Good Carl (Translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780691169514
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16951-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Cuba, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1950 to c 1959, History of the Americas, C 1945 To C 1960, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions