Listen Yankee Why Cuba Matters Author:Tom Hayden Fresh insight about one of history's most enigmatic of relationships between nation states, from one of America's best known voices of political and social activism. — Cuba and the US is informed by the author's unique history?not only as an observer of Cuba's complex and intricate past, but also as a US revolutionary student leader whose efforts... more » to mobilize political change in the US mirrored a simultaneous radical transformation in Cuba.
Chapters are devoted to the writings of Che Guevara, Regis Debray, and C. Wright Mills; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the Weather Underground; the assassination of JFK; the strong historical links between Cuba and Africa; the Carter era; the Clinton era; Cuban 5; and Elian Gonzalez.
Hayden documents the remarkable influence Cuba has had across Latin America. Perhaps most importantly, he rightly presents the great opportunity both countries now have to finally find common ground to the advantage of Cubans and Americans alike. « less
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