CUBA: AN AMERICAN HISTORY - ADA, FERRER. DR. - Paperback -03/06/2022

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, politics in Washington-Barack Obama’s opening to the island, Donald Trump’s reversal of that policy, and the election of Joe Biden-have made the relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more.Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an “important” (The Guardian) and moving chronicle that demands a new reckoning with both the island’s past and its relationship with the United States.Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba: An American History provides us with a front-row seat as we witness the evolution of the moder