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African Americans
Allen Ginsberg
American imperialism
American Left
American Nations
Amiri Baraka
Anti-Americanism
Anti-communism
Anti-imperialism
Assassination
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Black nationalism
Black Power
C. Wright Mills
Capitalism
Carlos Franqui
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Che Guevara
Colonialism
Communism
Criticism
Cuban Revolution
Cubans
Decolonization
Democratic socialism
Dictatorship
Eastern Bloc
Eastern Europe
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Fair Play for Cuba Committee
Fidel Castro
Frantz Fanon
Fulgencio Batista
Hannah Arendt
Hegemony
Ideology
Imperialism
Jean-Paul Sartre
John F. Kennedy
Latin America
Left-wing politics
Leo Huberman
Marxism
Marxism-Leninism
McCarthyism
Mexican Revolution
Michael Walzer
Nationalization
Pacifism
Paul Sweezy
Platt Amendment
Poetry
Politician
Politics
Public sphere
Racism
Radicalization
Real socialism
Robin Blackburn
Slavery
Sovereignty
Soviet Union
Sovietization
Stalinism
Tad Szulc
The Marxists
The New York Times
Third World
Totalitarianism
Trotskyism
Two Americas
Waldo Frank
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691169514
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 2015
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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New York in the 1960s was a hotbed for progressive causes of every stripe, including women's liberation, civil rights, opposition to the Vietnam War--and the Cuban Revolution. Fighting over Fidel brings this turbulent cultural moment to life by telling the story of the New York intellectuals who championed and opposed Castro's revolution. Setting his narrative against the backdrop of the ideological confrontation of the Cold War and the breakdown of relations between Washington and Havana, Rafael Rojas examines the lives and writings of such figures as Waldo Frank, Carleton Beals, C. Wright Mills, Allen Ginsberg, Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Eldridge Cleaver, Stokely Carmichael, and Jose Yglesias. He describes how Castro's Cuba was hotly debated in publications such as the New York Times, Village Voice, Monthly Review, and Dissent, and how Cuban socialism became a rallying cry for groups such as the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the Hispanic Left.
Fighting over Fidel shows how intellectuals in New York interpreted and wrote about the Cuban experience, and how the Left's enthusiastic embrace of Castro's revolution ended in bitter disappointment by the close of the explosive decade of the 1960s.
Rafael Rojas is professor at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics in Mexico City. He is one of Cuba's most distinguished cultural critics and a renowned scholar of Latin American history.
