| The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami Contributor(s): Rieff, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0671886274 ISBN-13: 9780671886271 Publisher: Touchstone Books OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1994 Annotation: "The Exile" is a fascinating portrait of Miami's Cuban population, the most successful group of immigrants to settle in the United States since the Jews of the nineteenth century. David Rieff, whom the San Diego Tribune called our "modern Alexis de Tocqueville", has provided an engrossing look at a group exiled from its homeland, showing how America has affected these immigrants, and what it means to become an American in the late twentieth century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 975.900 |
| LCCN: 93012141 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.54" W x 8.74" (0.65 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Florida |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "The Exile" is a fascinating portrait of Miami's Cuban population, the most successful group of immigrants to settle in the United States since the Jews of the nineteenth century. David Rieff, whom the San Diego Tribune called our "modern Alexis de Tocqueville," has provided an engrossing look at a group exiled from its homeland, showing how America has affected these immigrants, and what it means to become an American in the late twentieth century. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rieff, David: - David Rieff is the author of eight previous books, including Swimming in a Sea of Death, At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention; A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis; and Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West. He lives in New York City. |