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Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s

Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro`s visit to New York.`With its cool judgements and blackly comic sense of irony, Hall`s book is a rare pleasure to read.`DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Literary Review`A lively account . . . Ten Days in Harlem doesn`t stint on piquant detail.`LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS`[A] perceptive, thoroughly researched and readable study.`IRISH TIMESNew 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.Fidel`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.In 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.`Hall delivers his entertaining taile with brio.`i `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.`NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS

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