{"product_id":"ten-days-in-harlem-fidel-castro-and-the-making-of-the-1960s","title":"Simon Hall: Ten Days In Harlem [2021] paperback","description":"Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'With its cool judgements and blackly comic sense of irony, Hall's book is a rare pleasure to read.'\u003cbr\u003eDOMINIC SANDBROOK, Literary Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A lively account . . . Ten Days in Harlem doesn't stint on piquant detail.'\u003cbr\u003eLONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[A] perceptive, thoroughly researched and readable study.'\u003cbr\u003eIRISH TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew York City, September 1960. Fidel Castro - champion of the oppressed, scourge of colonialism, and leftist revolutionary - arrives for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. His visit to the UN represents a golden opportunity to make his mark on the world stage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFidel's shock arrival in Harlem is met with a rapturous reception from the local African American community. He holds court from the iconic Hotel Theresa as a succession of world leaders, black freedom fighters   and counter-cultural luminaries - everyone from Nikita Khrushchev to Gamal Abdel Nasser, Malcolm X to Allen Ginsberg - come calling. Then, during his landmark address to the UN General Assembly - one of the longest speeches in the organisation's history - he promotes the politics of anti-imperialism with a fervour, and an audacity, that makes him an icon of the 1960s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this unforgettable slice of modern history, Simon Hall reveals how these ten days were a foundational moment in the trajectory of the Cold War, a turning point in the history of anti-colonial struggle, and a   launching pad for the social, cultural and political tumult of the decade that followed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Hall delivers his entertaining taile with brio.'\u003cbr\u003ei \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Hall captures Castro's action-packed September 1960 soujourn in rich and compelling detail, and argues persuasisively that its repercussions echoed deeply in the decades to come.'\u003cbr\u003eNEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS","brand":"Hall, Simon","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46603204559187,"sku":"9780571353088","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":51811285958995,"sku":"XG80571353088","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48841848095059,"sku":"XV80571353088","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/9780571353088.jpg?v=1757082777","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/ten-days-in-harlem-fidel-castro-and-the-making-of-the-1960s","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}