"A vivid, engaging exploration of Cuban politics, culture and
economic life."--America "Considerably deeper than much of the work
on the subject. It takes on the challenge of describing what's in a
black box with energy and candor."--VisitCuba.com "The most
informative, accurate, insightful, detailed account available on
twenty-first century Cuba."--HavanaTimes.org "Marc Frank is the
best foreign journalist reporting from Cuba today. We now have a
behind-the-scenes look at the changes large and small taking place
as the Cuban revolution molts from Fidel to Raul to the next
generation."--Julia Sweig, author of Cuba: What Everyone Needs to
Know "A must-read book to grasp what has been happening in Cuba
over the past ten years."--Wayne Smith, director of the Cuba
Project, Center for International Policy "Frank enriches his
fascinating reportage with his unparalleled access to expressive
Cubans from all walks of life."--Richard Feinberg, University of
California, San Diego "With a sharp eye for human detail and a
clear understanding of what makes Cuba tick, Frank's narrative
bears eloquent, balanced, and always sensitive witness to the
troubled trajectory of Cuba from the 'dark days' of the 1990s
economic collapse through to the challenging changes under Raul. It
genuinely gets 'inside' the otherwise confusing system and society,
and is all the more welcome for that."--Antoni Kapcia, coeditor of
The Changing Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society "Gripping and
insightful. It is rare indeed to find reporting as authoritative
and well sourced as this about what remains an impenetrable and
opaque regime."--Michael Reid, author of Forgotten Continent: The
Battle for Latin America's Soul As a U.S.-born journalist who has
called Havana home for almost a quarter century, Mark Frank has
observed in person the best days of the revolution, the fall of the
Soviet bloc, the great depression of the 1990s, the stepping aside
of Fidel Castro, and the reforms now being devised by his brother.
In Cuban Revelations, Frank offers a first-hand account of daily
life in Cuba at the turn of the twenty-first century, the start of
a new and dramatic epoch for islanders and the Cuban diaspora.
Examining the effects of U.S. policy toward Cuba, Frank analyzes
why Cuba has entered an extraordinary, irreversible period of
change and considers what the island's future holds. The enormous
social engineering project taking place today under Raul's
leadership is fraught with many dangers, and Cuban Revelations
follows the new leader's efforts to overcome bureaucratic
resistance and the fears of a populace that stand in his way. In
addition, Frank offers a colorful chronicle of his travels across
the island's many and varied provinces, sharing candid interviews
with people from all walks of life. He takes the reader outside the
capital to reveal how ordinary Cubans live and what they are
thinking and feeling as fifty-year-old social and economic taboos
are broken. He shares his honest and unbiased observations on
extraordinary positive developments in social matters, like
healthcare and education, as well as on the inefficiencies in the
Cuban economy. Ultimately, Cuban Revelations is an objective
account by a reporter who has lived with the Cubans for many years
as their old world falls apart and they set about trying to build a
new one.
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