{"product_id":"ten-days-in-harlem-tpb-w2-returns","title":"Simon Hall: Ten Days in Harlem: RETURN [2020] 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.","brand":"Hall, Simon","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44318523588898,"sku":"9780571353071","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/hall-simon-ten-days-in-harlem-tpb-w2-returns-9780571353071-40361092776226.jpg?v=1673893971","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/ten-days-in-harlem-tpb-w2-returns","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}