{"product_id":"ten-days-in-harlem-fidel-castro-and-the-making-of-the-1960s","title":"Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s","description":"Review\n\nWith its cool judgements and blackly comic sense of irony, Hall's book is a rare pleasure to read. -- Dominic Sandbrook ― Literary Review\n\nA lively account . . . Ten Days in Harlem doesn't stint on piquant detail. -- Thomas Meaney ― London Review of Books\n\n[A] perceptive, thoroughly researched and readable study. -- Brian Maye ― Irish Times\n\nAn entertaining story. -- Dr. Christenna Fryar ― Free Thinking, BBC Radio 3\n\nFidel Castro's 1960 visit to New York was the Third World's great coming-out, and Simon Hall has captured this catalytic moment like no one before. Anyone interested in the \"Global Sixties\" must read Ten Days in Harlem. -- Van E. Gosse, Professor and Associate Chair of History, Program of Africana Studies, Franklin \u0026amp; Marshall College\n\nSimon Hall captures Castro's action-packed September 1960 New York sojourn in rich and compelling detail, and argues persuasively that its repercussions echoed deeply in the decade to come. ― New York Journal of Books\n\n[An] enjoyable account . Hall delivers his entertaining tale with brio. -- Peter Carty ― i\n\nWell-researched, compelling, entertaining and at times scarcely believable . . . an interesting portrayal of a fiery and transformative time in Cold War history and rich in detail. ― Americas Quarterly\n\nA wide-ranging exploration . . . Hall's informative, page-turning account captures the cultural and political tumult of the era, and the fervent idealism that made Castro a revolutionary icon. Political history buffs will want to take a look. ― Publishers Weekly\n\nA highly readable, engaging, astute microhistory of an overlooked event. ― Kirkus (Starred Review)\n\nHall recovers Castro's visit as a critical turning point in the trajectory of the Cold War and the development of \"The Sixties\". ― Lithub\n\n\nProduct Description\n\nRising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York.\n\n'With its cool judgements and blackly comic sense of irony, Hall's book is a rare pleasure to read.'\nDOMINIC SANDBROOK, Literary Review\n\n'A lively account . . . Ten Days in Harlem doesn't stint on piquant detail.'\nLONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS\n\n'[A] perceptive, thoroughly researched and readable study.'\nIRISH TIMES\n\nNew 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.\n\nFidel'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.\n\nIn 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.\n\n'Hall delivers his entertaining taile with brio.'\ni\n\n'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.'\nNEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS\n\nReview\n\nPraise for 1956: The World in Revolt\nVivid, powerful and panoramic ... I loved it. -- Dominic Sandbrook\nEngrossing ... A CinemaScope epic, packed with detail. -- Daily Telegraph\nFast-moving and vivid. Hall is a fluent and unobtrusive narrator. -- Independent\nA marvellous social history. -- Observer\n\nSimon Hall cap","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40595644219477,"sku":"9780571353088N","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/41a69e99-ccea-412c-bd12-543195950dbc.jpg?v=1682420412","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/ten-days-in-harlem-fidel-castro-and-the-making-of-the-1960s","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}