Miami (Paperback)

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Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780679781806

Publisher: Vintage Books

Publish Date: 10/1/1998

Buy.com Sku: 30390505

Item#: RSVYVF

Buy.com Sales Rank: 96145

Dimensions (in Inches) 8H x 5.5L x 0.75T

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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Joan Didion looks beyond the Miami of tourism, nightlife, drugs, and glitz to tell the story of the angry, insular, and vocal Castro-hating Cuban exiles there. She also writes about the role the city has played in American politics since the days of the Cold War, and tackles the legendary corruption of the city government and its shameful history of racism.

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Joan Didion

Joan Didion attended the University of California at Berkeley and then moved to New York. She was an editor at Vogue until 1963, when she became a published writer. She married John Gregory Dunne in 1964 and began to collaborate with him on screenplays. They lived in California for many years--where their daughter Quintana Roo was born in 1966--but eventually settled in New York City.

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