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Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
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In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued—through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raúl Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country’s future. Meanwhile,...
Author
Publisher
Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
US-Cuba Relations covers the history of the United States' and Cuba's relationship, how both countries are working to mend their relations, and what the future may hold for these close neighbors and their citizens. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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Publisher
Distributed by Ingram Publisher Services
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Covering popular culture, the economy, and Cuban politics, veteran reporter Reese Erlich combines original photography with on-the-ground reporting from Havana and Miami. He explores Cuba's strained history with the US, the power of the Cuba Lobby and offers a fresh look at the island nation nearly 50 years after their historic Revolution to create a tableau that is at once moving and informative.--from publisher description.
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Language
English
Description
Scottish-born naturalist and writer John Muir undertook a daring adventure in 1867, just a few years after the Civil War. After recovering from an injury at a saw mill, Muir decided that he wanted to explore the world. He left his life in Indiana and walked one thousand miles to Florida. Without any real direction or purpose other than to study the flora and fauna, Muir trekked south through Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida...
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Publisher
Bancroft Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Exhaustively researched, "Live by the Sword" reveals how the secret war of the Kennedy brothers, John and Robert, against Castro's regime triggered JFK's assassination, and also shows that Lee Harvey Oswald was indeed the lone assailant. 24 illustrations.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, the Cuban refugee retired from the Central...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"In The Cuba Wars, Daniel Erikson draws on extensive visits to Cuba and conversations with Cubans from across the political spectrum - plus the key players in Washington and Florida - to offer the most vivid and up-to-date portrait of a small country with very large importance to America."--BOOK JACKET
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A mob saga that has it all-brotherhood and betrayal, swaggering power and glittering success, and a Godfather whose reach seems utterly unrivaled. What a relentless, irresistible read."
- Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of The Force
A fascinating, cinematic, multigenerational history of the Cuban mob in the US from "America's top chronicler of organized crime"* and New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne.
By the...
14) Ghosts of Havana
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Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A timely international thriller by the former deputy assistant secretary of state and bestselling author. When four American sport fishermen stray into Cuban waters and are promptly arrested by Castro's navy, State Department crisis manager Judd Ryker finds himself called in to negotiate their release. But the more Ryker digs in to the situation, the more things he discovers that just don't seem to fit, especially now, with relations between the...
15) Live by night
Author
Series
Coughlin novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world.Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in...
18) The Bay of Pigs
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of President Eisenhower's disastrous attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. He deftly examines the train of missteps and self-deceptions that led to the invasion of U.S.-trained exiles at the Bay of Pigs.
19) The Bay of Pigs
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Contains essays in which the authors examine the reasons why the United States invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in 1961, why the invasion failed, and how the incident has affected U.S. foreign policy and U.S.-Cuban relations.