Readers have wondered how to get a hold of this book, long out of print, and extremely pricey on Internet used-book services. Most of the time, when conservatives try to play nicey-nice with the Left, they get burned. I was reminded of this, for the 4 millionth or so time, when interior secretary Gale Norton invited Robert Redford to participate with her at some environmentalist function. The idea that Robert Redford can be made common cause with, reached out to, was never very bright. He is not a nice, mushy, well-meaning liberal, but a pretty firm Castroite, and the beautiful face he once had should not mask this nasty fact.
Celebrities can get elected to most anything, it seems.
And, you know, she's still got the look. The dissident and political prisoner Marcelo Diosdado has died there. As far as his widow is concerned, the authorities killed him. Diosdado was a brave and inspiring man. He had long protested against the Communist regime, and he was, of course, brutalized because of it.