{"product_id":"where-the-boys-are-cuba-cold-war-and-the-making-of-a-new-left-paperback","title":"Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War and the Making of a New Left - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVan Gosse\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ignominious failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 marked the culmination of a curious episode at the height of the Cold War. At the end of the fifties, restless and rebellious youth, avant-garde North American intellectuals, old leftists, and even older liberals found inspiration in the images and achievements of Fidel Castro's revolutionary guerrillas. \u003ci\u003eFidelismo\u003c\/i\u003e swept across the US, as young North Americans sought to join the 26th of July Movement in the Sierra Maestra. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing equally on cultural and political materials, from James Dean and Desi Arnaz to C. Wright Mills and \u003ci\u003eStudies on the Left\u003c\/i\u003e, Gosse explains how the peculiar conjuncture of 1950s America 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere the Boys Are\u003c\/i\u003e captures the strange essence of that much-abused decade, the 1950s, at once demonstrating the perfidy of Cold War American liberal opinion towards Cuba and its revolution while explaining why Fidel and his \u003ci\u003ecompa eros\u003c\/i\u003e made such appealing idols for the young, the restless, and the politically adventurous.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVan Gosse\u003c\/b\u003e teaches modern US, African American, and Cold War history at Franklin \u0026amp; Marshall College and is a longtime member of the Radical History Review Editorial Collective. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhere the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America and the Making of a New Left\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRethinking the New Left: An Interpretative History\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Movements of the New Left, 1950-1975: A Brief History with Documents\u003c\/i\u003e; and editor, with Richard Moser, of \u003ci\u003eThe World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America\u003c\/i\u003e. He has served as director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas and as organizing director of Peace Action, and has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.18 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 17, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748092674336,"sku":"9780860916901","price":34.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0f43d359092bcb2b1ecb841f1a477fca.webp?v=1779904353","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/where-the-boys-are-cuba-cold-war-and-the-making-of-a-new-left-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}