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Very good in very good dust jacket. 201 p. Audience: General/trade. NICE COPY--VERY SLIGHT SHELF WARE--TEXT CLEAN AND TIGHT--GIFT--STILL HAS LOTS OF GREAT READS LEFT
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New York. 1980. January 1981. Random House. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394511050. 203 pages. hardcover. Jacket design: Jack Ribik. keywords: Cuba Latin America Caribbean History Autobiography. FROM THE PUBLISHER-From April to August 1980, the world witnessed the unfolding of one of the most astonishing political dramas of our time: the exodus of more than 120, 000 Cubans from their homeland. Their headlong rush for freedom, however, was only the culmination of developments that had gone virtually unnoticed for nearly two decades. Since Castro took power in 1960, thousands of his countrymen have risked death to flee his rule. Many had been supporters of his regime and heirs of the revolution, who stood to reap the benefits of the promised socialist state. What caused their disenchantment with a leader they once trusted and admired? Why did they choose to face the uncertainties of exile rather than continue living in the land of their fathers? FREEDOM FLIGHTS give an incisive portrait of the refugees and Cuban society. It brings together twenty narratives by Cuban exiles now living in the United States. All are ordinary people, and they include a farmer, a fisherman, a former stevedore on a Russian ship, an industrial worker, a student, a black boxer, and the son of a Politburo member. In testaments to human courage, they speak out on contemporary Cuban realities: the concentration of all power in Fidel Castro and an oligarchy known as los pinchos who enjoy outrageous bourgeois luxuries; economic mismanagement resulting in serious shortages of food and consumer goods; endless queues for skimpy rations; a scarcity of living space; the corruption of the national spirit by Cuba's affiance with the Soviet Union; the militarization of the labor force and of schools; and the creation of a society based on fear, a police state where children are encouraged to turn in their parents for deviating from the party line. Here, then, is an unrivaled first-hand report on Cuba. FREEDOM FLIGHTS enlarges our understanding of the workings of that society and the role it plays in world politics today. Highly contemporary, it is must reading for everyone concerned with the fate of the most recent refugees, whose troubled integration into our society is fast becoming an important national issue. inventory #10461.
