Written as a unique firsthand account, this poignant memoir of John Wheeler, the last American journalist in Cuba in the late 1960s, reveals the untold story of Cuba's struggle to reform in the early days of the Cold war. For nearly three years, Wheeler was the only U.S. reporter in Cuba and one of the few Americans to directly witness Castro's attempts at economic, political, and social reform. The real-life stories of spies, counter spies, dissidents, defectors, revolutionary patriots, Soviet journalists, and, of course, Castro himself are featured in this remembrance of the gripping international political tension that characterized the late 1960s.
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"Wheeler's account of the ways he had to exercise his training on the streets of Havana is mesmerizing, as are his descriptions of the intensely personal politics of Cuba in the sixties." --"Book News, Inc,"
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