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Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s

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Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York.

Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro''s visit to New Y...

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Product ID:9780571353088
Product Form:Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:GB
Title:Ten Days in Harlem
Subtitle:Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s
Authors:Author: Simon Hall
Page Count:288
Subjects:General and world history, General & world history, History, History: specific events and topics, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, History: specific events & topics, c 1960 to c 1970
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Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York.

Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro''s visit to New York.

‘With its cool judgements and blackly comic sense of irony, Hall’s book is a rare pleasure to read.’
DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Literary Review

''A lively account . . . Ten Days in Harlem doesn''t stint on piquant detail.''
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

''[A] perceptive, thoroughly researched and readable study.''
IRISH TIMES

New York City, September 1960. Fidel Castro - champion of the oppressed, scourge of colonialism, and leftist revolutionary – arrives for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. His visit to the UN represents a golden opportunity to make his mark on the world stage.

Fidel’s shock arrival in Harlem is met with a rapturous reception from the local African American community. He holds court from the iconic Hotel Theresa as a succession of world leaders, black freedom fighters and counter-cultural luminaries – everyone from Nikita Khrushchev to Gamal Abdel Nasser, Malcolm X to Allen Ginsberg – come calling. Then, during his landmark address to the UN General Assembly – one of the longest speeches in the organisation’s history – he promotes the politics of anti-imperialism with a fervour, and an audacity, that makes him an icon of the 1960s.

In this unforgettable slice of modern history, Simon Hall reveals how these ten days were a foundational moment in the trajectory of the Cold War, a turning point in the history of anti-colonial struggle, and a launching pad for the social, cultural and political tumult of the decade that followed.

''Hall delivers his entertaining taile with brio.''
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''Hall captures Castro''s action-packed September 1960 soujourn in rich and compelling detail, and argues persuasisively that its repercussions echoed deeply in the decades to come.''
NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS


Imprint Name:Faber & Faber
Publisher Name:Faber & Faber
Country of Publication:GB
Publishing Date:2021-09-02