{"product_id":"ten-days-in-harlem","title":"Ten Days In Harlem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro''s visit to New York.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘With its cool judgements and blackly comic sense of irony, Hall’s book is a rare pleasure to read.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDOMINIC SANDBROOK\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A lively account . . . \u003ci\u003eTen Days in Harlem \u003c\/i\u003edoesn''t stint on piquant detail.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''[A] perceptive, thoroughly researched and readable study.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIRISH TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFidel’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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Hall delivers his entertaining taile with brio.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ei \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''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.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57314485895550,"sku":"NW9780571353088","price":11.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571353088.jpg?v=1778713546","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/ten-days-in-harlem","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}