Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War and the Making of a New Left (Haymarket Series)

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The ignominious failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 marked the culmination of a curious episode On the height of the Cold War. On the end of the fifties, restless and rebellious youth, avant-garde North American intellectuals, old leftists, or even older liberals found inspiration within the images and achievements of Fidel Castro’s revolutionary guerrillas. Fidelismo swept across the United States, as young North Americans sought to sign up for the 26th of July Movement within the Sierra Maestra.

Drawing equally on cultural and political materials, from James Dean and Desi Arnaz to C. Wright Mills and Studies at the Left, Gosse explains how the abnormal conjuncture of 1950s The united states produced the first great Third World solidarity movement, the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which became a locus for the New Left emerging from the ashes of Kennedy’s New Frontier.

Where the Boys Are captures the unusual essence of that much-abused decade, the 1950s, at once demonstrating the perfidy of Cold War American liberal opinion towards Cuba and its revolution whilst explaining why Fidel and his compañeros made such appealing idols for the young, the restless, and the politically adventurous.

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