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<\/p>\nJust Released! Cuba US Relations: Obama and Beyond<\/p>\n
By Arnold August<\/p>\n
Contains an analysis of Trump\u2019s evolving Cuba policy.<\/p>\n
Just released from Fernwood Publishing.<\/p>\n
Short exract from the Foreword by Keith Ellis to CubaUSRelations<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhat does a Canadian progressive intellectual do when a revolution<\/p>\n
made by the people of Cuba has won, because of its spirit and its<\/p>\n
achievements, his admiration and his loyalty? What does he do when<\/p>\n
this revolution, which, he shows, is the authentic culmination of a process<\/p>\n
that has involved all the salient stages of Cuba\u2019s history, of its struggles, now<\/p>\n
finds itself in a time of unprecedented complexity and new difficulties, fed in<\/p>\n
part by the very successes of the Revolution? Arnold August brings to the task<\/p>\n
his finest gift, his superbly developed talent as a journalist, understanding<\/p>\n
this to mean the habit of assessing different aspects and representations of<\/p>\n
reality, so that he offers an ultimate fairness to the reasonable and humane<\/p>\n
reader. August constantly exhibits a related attribute: his remarkable power<\/p>\n
of analysis. The two together make the experience of reading him an enlightening<\/p>\n
one. His research work for this book, as for others on related topics,<\/p>\n
led him to live in Cuba for important periods of time, to live among Cubans<\/p>\n
and notice 1) how Fidel\u2019s extraordinary power of analysis has been reflected<\/p>\n
in the Cuban population and 2) the impact its diffusion throughout the<\/p>\n
society has had on producing the calm, pleasant affability that underpins<\/p>\n
the stability of Cuba during times that could have been tempestuous. The<\/p>\n
people know how to think, and August has the superior skills, derived from<\/p>\n
his affinity for truth-telling, to produce a reliable picture of the complexities<\/p>\n
of their reaction to attempts to beguile them.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Praise, Table of Contents, Biographies of Keith Ellis, Ricadro Alarc\u00f3n (Introduction to book CubaUSRelations), and Arnold August (Author) and how to purchase the book see CubaUSRelations.com<\/p>\n
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