Joan Didion: Miami
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Author: Joan Didion
Number of Pages: 240 pages
Published Date: 01 Oct 1998
Publisher: VINTAGE
Publication Country: New York, NY, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780679781806
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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 90 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.