Just Released! Cuba US Relations: Obama and Beyond
By Arnold August
Contains an analysis of Trump’s evolving Cuba policy.
Just released from Fernwood Publishing.
Short exract from the Foreword by Keith Ellis to CubaUSRelations
“What does a Canadian progressive intellectual do when a revolution
made by the people of Cuba has won, because of its spirit and its
achievements, his admiration and his loyalty? What does he do when
this revolution, which, he shows, is the authentic culmination of a process
that has involved all the salient stages of Cuba’s history, of its struggles, now
finds itself in a time of unprecedented complexity and new difficulties, fed in
part by the very successes of the Revolution? Arnold August brings to the task
his finest gift, his superbly developed talent as a journalist, understanding
this to mean the habit of assessing different aspects and representations of
reality, so that he offers an ultimate fairness to the reasonable and humane
reader. August constantly exhibits a related attribute: his remarkable power
of analysis. The two together make the experience of reading him an enlightening
one. His research work for this book, as for others on related topics,
led him to live in Cuba for important periods of time, to live among Cubans
and notice 1) how Fidel’s extraordinary power of analysis has been reflected
in the Cuban population and 2) the impact its diffusion throughout the
society has had on producing the calm, pleasant affability that underpins
the stability of Cuba during times that could have been tempestuous. The
people know how to think, and August has the superior skills, derived from
his affinity for truth-telling, to produce a reliable picture of the complexities
of their reaction to attempts to beguile them.”
For Praise, Table of Contents, Biographies of Keith Ellis, Ricadro Alarcón (Introduction to book CubaUSRelations), and Arnold August (Author) and how to purchase the book see CubaUSRelations.com
Introduction: Ricardo Alarcón, Foreword: Keith Ellis