Ten Days in Harlem (ePub)
'With its cool judgements and blackly comic sense of irony, Hall's book is a rare pleasure to...
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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 . . . 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.
1956: The World in Revolt (Faber).
- Autor: Simon Hall
- 2020, Main, 288 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Faber & Faber
- ISBN-10: 0571353096
- ISBN-13: 9780571353095
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2020
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