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Trading with the Enemy Tom Miller

Trading with the Enemy By Tom Miller

Trading with the Enemy by Tom Miller


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Summary

A travel classic, revised after twenty years: a journalist's lyrical account of life in Castro's Cuba.

Trading with the Enemy Summary

Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba by Tom Miller

Havana knew me by my shoes, begins Tom Miller's lively and entertaining account of his sojourn for more than eight months traveling through Cuba, mixing with its literati and black marketers, its cane cutters and cigar rollers. Granted unprecedented access to travel throughout the country, the author presents us with a rare insight into one of the world's only Communist countries. Its best-known personalities and ordinary citizens talk to him about the U.S. embargo and tell their favourite Fidel jokes as they stand in line for bread at the Socialism or Death Bakery. Miller provides a running commentary on Cuba's food shortages, exotic sensuality, and baseball addiction as he follows the scents of Graham Greene, Jose Marti, Ernest Hemingway, and the Mambo Kings. The result of this informed and adventurous journey is a vibrant, rhythmic portrait of a land and people too long shielded from American eyes.

About Tom Miller

Tom Miller is a veteran of the underground press of the 1960s. His work has appeared in Smithsonian, The New Yorker, LIFE, the New York Times, Natural History, and many other publications and he has appeared on NBC, NPR, CNN, HBO, XM, and CSPAN, among other broadcast outlets. He has been affiliated with the University of Arizona's Latin American Area centre since 1990, and makes his home in Tucson with his wife, Regla Albarran.

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GOR002640523
9780465005031
0465005039
Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba by Tom Miller
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Basic Books
20080909
384
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