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Kissing Fidel - A Memoir of Cuban American Terrorism in the United States (Paperback, 1) Loot Price: R515
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Kissing Fidel - A Memoir of Cuban American Terrorism in the United States (Paperback, 1): Magda Montiel Davis

Kissing Fidel - A Memoir of Cuban American Terrorism in the United States (Paperback, 1)

Magda Montiel Davis

Series: The Iowa Prize in Literary Nonfiction

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What does it mean to be instantly transformed into the most hated person in your community? After meeting Fidel Castro at a Havana reception in 1994, Cuban-born Magda Montiel Davis, founder of one of the largest immigration law firms in South Florida, soon found out. The reception - attended by hundreds of other Cuban EmigrEs - was videotaped for historical archives. In a seconds-long clip, Fidel pecks the traditional protocol kiss on Montiel Davis's cheek as she thanks him for the social benefits conferred upon the Cuban people. The video, however, was mysteriously sold to U.S. reporters and aired incessantly throughout South Florida. Soon the encounter was an international cause cElEbre. Life as she knew it was over for Montiel Davis and her family, including a father who worked with the CIA to topple Fidel, a nohablo-inglEs mother who lived with the family, her five children, and her Jewish Brooklyn-born attorney husband. Kissing Fidel shares the sometimes dismal, sometimes comical realities of an ordinary citizen being thrown into a world of death threats, mob attacks, and terrorism.

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Imprint: University of Iowa Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: The Iowa Prize in Literary Nonfiction
Release date: October 2020
Authors: Magda Montiel Davis
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
Edition: 1
ISBN-13: 978-1-60938-726-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Public administration
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > Biography > General
LSN: 1-60938-726-0
Barcode: 9781609387266

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