Where the Boys Are Cuba, Cold War and the Making of a New Left

Name: Where the Boys Are Cuba, Cold War and the Making of a New Left
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ISBN: 9780860916901

ISBN-10: 0860916901

ISBN-13: 9780860916901

Edition: 1993

Authors: Van Gosse

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The ignominious failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 marked the culmination of a curious episode at the height of the Cold War. At the end of the fifties, restless and rebellious youth, avant-garde North American intellectuals, old leftists, and even older liberals found inspiration in the images and achievements of Fidel Castro’s revolutionary guerrillas. Fidelismo swept across the US, as young North Americans sought to join the 26th of July Movement in the Sierra Maestra.Drawing equally on cultural and political materials, from James Dean and Desi Arnaz to C. Wright Mills and Studies on the Left, Gosse explains how the peculiar conjuncture of 1950s America produced the first great…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 12/17/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.990

Van Gosse teaches history at Franklin & Marshall College. He is the author of W"here the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America and the Making of a New Left."