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Born into a family of migrant workers, toiling in the fields by the
age of six, Jose M. Hernandez dreamed of traveling through the
night skies on a rocket ship. REACHING FOR THE STARS is the
inspiring story of how he realized that dream, becoming the first
Mexican-American astronaut.
Hernandez didn't speak English till he was 12, and his peers often
joined gangs, or skipped school. And yet, by his twenties he was
part of an elite team helping develop technology for the early
detection of breast cancer. He was turned down by NASA eleven times
on his long journey to donning that famous orange space suit.
Hernandez message of hard work, education, perseverance, of
"reaching for the stars," makes this a classic American
autobiography.
"
When Cuba threw off the yoke of Spanish rule at the end of the
nineteenth century, it did so with the help of another foreign
power, the United States. Thereafter, the United States became
involved in Cuban affairs, intervening twice militarily (1898-1902
and 1906-1909). What was the effect of U.S. intervention?
Conventional wisdom indicates that U.S. intervention hindered
the rise of militarism in Cuba in the early years of statehood.
This pathfinding study, however, takes just the opposite view. Jose
M. Hernandez argues that while U.S. influence may have checked the
worst excesses of the Independence-war veterans who assumed control
of Cuba's government, it did not completely deter them from
resorting to violence. Thus, a tradition of using violence as a
method for transferring power developed in Cuba that often made a
mockery of democratic processes.
In substantiating this innovative interpretation, Hernandez
covers a crucial phase in Cuban history that has been neglected by
most recent U.S. historians. Correcting stereotypes and myths, he
takes a fresh and dispassionate look at Cuba's often romanticized
struggle for political emancipation, describing and analyzing in
persuasive detail civilmilitary relations throughout the period.
This puts national hero Jose Marti's role in the 1895-1898 war of
independence in an unusual perspective and sets in bold relief the
historical forces that went underground in 1898-1902, only to
resurface a few years later.
This study will be of interest to all students of hemispheric
relations. It presents not only a more accurate picture of the Cuba
spawned by American intervention, but also the Cuban side of a
story that too frequently has been told solely from the U.S. point
of view.
Born into a family of migrant workers, toiling in the fields by the
age of six, Jose M. Hernandez dreamed of traveling through the
night skies on a rocket ship. REACHING FOR THE STARS is the
inspiring story of how he realized that dream, becoming the first
Mexican-American astronaut.
Hernandez didn't speak English till he was 12, and his peers often
joined gangs, or skipped school. And yet, by his twenties he was
part of an elite team helping develop technology for the early
detection of breast cancer. He was turned down by NASA eleven times
on his long journey to donning that famous orange space suit.
Hernandez message of hard work, education, perseverance, of
"reaching for the stars," makes this a classic American
autobiography.
"
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