Boxing for Cuba
Subtitle: an immigrant's story
By: Guillermo Vicente Vidal
Publisher: Fulcrum Pub.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Golden, Colorado
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781555919108
Subjects: Cuban Americans; Exiles; Immigrants; Biography
Description: "The whims of politics are at the fore of Guillermo Vincente Vidal s memoir, in which young boys become men in the shadow of revolution and personal turmoil. Vidal writes about his family's participation in events that forever altered U.S. Cuban relations after an effort to free children from the threat of Communist rule sparked Operation Peter Pan. From chance encounters with Fidel Castro and Robert F. Kennedy to life in a dismal Catholic orphanage in Colorado, Vidal perseveres to embrace life as a proud and successful Cuban American. His account is a poignant story of forgiveness and the joy of returning home."--Publisher's website.
Table of contents: title: The center of the universe; title: A wonderful time to be alive; title: The bearded ones; title: La pescera; title: Lost boys; title: Boxing for Cuba; title: Betrayals; title: An American world; title: A desperate man's eyes; title: Cheering for Cassius Clay; title: The first Cuban on the moon; title: Burial grounds; title: Volver a Cuba; title: The house and the mango tree; title: A final word.