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Item Details
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YANKEE COME HOME
ON THE ROAD FROM SAN JUAN HILL TO GUANTANAMO |
| By: |
William Craig |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£19.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
080271093X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780802710932 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING USA |
| Pub. date: |
25 October, 2012 |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
A journey of personal history along the Spanish-American War battle trail and an examination of America's century-long relationship with Cuba and the consequences of abandoning our revolutionary ideals. |
| Synopsis: |
The Spanish-American War ended over a century ago, but its effects are with us still. In Yankee Come Home, William Craig travels through Cuba, the birthplace of American imperialism, to find out why our republican ideals died in the glory of San Juan Hill, and to reveal Guantanamo, the corner of Cuba we've never left. I n doing so, he recounts more than a century of the fascinating, but none-too-flattering relationship between the United States and Cuba. Through present-day adventures-spirit-possession rituals, black market odysseys and roots-music epiphanies-Craig explores what that relationship has wrought in the lives of Cubans and A mericans alike. Craig was drawn to the Cuban-American story by memories of his mysterious great-grandfather Thomas O'Brien, a self-proclaimed hero of the "splendid little war" whose legacy of glorious, painful lies left his own children wondering who he'd really been. Like the reality of "Papa" O'Brien's identity, the story of the United States' 1898 intervention in Cuba reflects more hubris than heroism, more avarice than sacrifice.But in the end, despite America's unseemly history there, Craig's journey through Cuba and its history takes him to a greater understanding of both countries. His observation that "at Guantanamo, freedom is in trouble on both sides of the wire" applies to the past and present of the United States as well as Cuba. |
| Illustrations: |
B&W illus throughout |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Walker & Co |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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