num_pages: 240
description: Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence, f rom the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean.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 ninety 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.
language: English
title: Miami
titlecomplete: Miami
genres: 20th Century, Essays, American, Politics, Historical, Travel, The United States Of America, Nonfiction, History, Journalism
ratings_count: 2164
places: Florida
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: American Studies
publisher: Vintage