{"product_id":"ten-days-in-harlem-simon-hall-9780571353088","title":"Ten Days in Harlem","description":"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.\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'A lively account . . . Ten Days in Harlem doesn't stint on piquant detail.'\nLONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS\n'[A] perceptive, thoroughly researched and readable study.'\nIRISH TIMES\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.\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.\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'Hall delivers his entertaining taile with brio.'\ni \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","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51329070563616,"sku":"9780571353088","price":11.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780571353088.jpg?v=1773219432","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/ten-days-in-harlem-simon-hall-9780571353088","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}