Ten Days in Harlem
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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.
'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 . .&,nbsp,. Ten Days in Harlem doesn't
stint on piquant detail.'LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS'[A] perceptive,
thoroughly researched and readable study.'IRISH TIMESNew 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.'i '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
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Faber & Faber ,
Hall Simon
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Faber & Faber,
Hall Simon
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Slovart
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