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Memories of a Cuban Kitchen: More Than 200 Classic Recipes

49 reviews
Mary Urrutia Randelman, Joan Schwartz

Wiley, 1996

Greatest CUBAN HOME COOKING book ever!
After sitting in the bookstore, going over about 10-20 so called Cuban recipe cookbooks, this is the ONE in my kitchen. Both my parents are from Cuba, I was born there as well, so naturally my siblings and I grew up on traditional Cuban recipes. This book is the closest to Mom's cooking I have ever found, and with some help from Mom, these recipes are just like being home. Easy to follow, ...

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

21 reviews
Michael Dobbs

Knopf, 2008

Read it and be scared all over again
I was in college during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Between classes we sat in the Student Union Building watching CBS News on TV, waiting for a break in the tension - or the flash of a nuclear bomb. At one point the lights went out and one of my friends yelled and dove under a sofa for cover. (Someone had bumped the light switch.) The missile crisis was a defining moment in the Cold War. ...

Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform

8 reviews
David Tyack, Larry Cuban

Harvard University Press, 1997

Best Brief Intro to Educational Reform in the US
Tinkering Toward Utopia is simply the best brief introduction to the history of educational reform in the US available. Anyone with a genuine interest in historical explanations of why grand schemes of school reform fail and why "crisis" is the way the US has tended to view its need for school reform, will be rewarded by this clearly written account. The book substitutes complex historical ...

Telex from Cuba: A Novel

15 reviews
Rachel Kushner

Scribner, 2008

Smashing debut
How does a novel like this get written? The interview with the author that accompanies this listing on Amazon gives an idea as to the nuts and bolts of it, the research involved, and the writerly process of points of view. But how does the atmosphere get so carefully recreated? The store receipts the author's Mother kept from Cuba can give details of things bought and events that occurred, ...

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

36 reviews
Robert F. Kennedy

W. W. Norton & Company, 1999

AS WE APPROACH IN HALF A YEAR THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS FBI ASSASSINATION LET US RECALL WHEN WISDOM AND DIPLOMACY RULED
Here we have in Robert Kennedy's own account how the world kept out of annihilating nuclear warfare nearly a half century ago, rather than the current highly profitable rushes to war with untold, uncounted millions of innocent victims these past few decades. Here we can read how true, wise, competent and democratically elected national leaders kept us out of war, Averting 'The Final Failure': ...

Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five ...

15 reviews
John Huddy

Ballantine Books, 2008

This Review Does No Justice To The Book
What a story...one of my top picks from the non-fiction genre. Action, adventure, brutality, justice. Amazing story.

Dreaming in Cuban

40 reviews
Cristina Garcia

Ballantine Books, 1993

Tastes of Perfection....
While it may sound like an overstatement, this book really does taste of perfection. The fact that Garcia began it as a poem which blossomed into a novel is apparent. The language is simply beautiful. Garcia tracks the del Pino women through their different experiences with exile, showing us both extremes (the pro-Castro, anti-American and the assimilated immigrant who hates communism and ...

Havana Before Castro

2 reviews
Peter Moruzzi

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2008

Nostalgia at its best!
My wife and I escaped Cuba during the early sixties. Almost certain that we might be returning within a month or two (50 years ago) we did not bring along photographs, memories, or keepsakes of any kind. "Havana Before Castro" is the best collection of memorabilia ever to touch my hands. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You've made my day! Andrew J. Rodriguez, author of: "Adios, Havana" a ...

The Drummer's Bible: How to Play Every Drum Style from Afro-Cuban to Zydeco

27 reviews
Mick Berry, Jason Gianni

See Sharp Press, 2003

Excellent introduction to the history of rhythms and drumming
I've been drumming for about a year, taking lessons from Mick ,the author of this excellent book. I use this book every time I practice either as a reference, to learn new stuff, or to get new ideas. I love the background information on each section and feel the book helps to understand rhythm and drumming from a worldwide historical perspective. Each section teaches solid basics and some ...

Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (2nd Edition)

12 reviews
Graham T. Allison, Philip Zelikow

Longman, 1999

Impressive Scholarship
A great number of books and articles has been published attempting to explore and explain the Cuban missile crisis that had brought the world to the brink of a thermonuclear world war. Allison and Zelikow, in Essence of Decision, explain the Cuban missile crisis through three different lenses, that is, The Rational Actor Paradigm, Organizational Behavior Paradigm and Governmental Politics ...

The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)

5 reviews
Sheldon Stern

Stanford University Press, 2005

A narrative written for students and general readers
The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous moment of the Cold War and has received numerous analysis in other titles and articles. What makes Sheldon M. Stern's The Week The World Stood Still: Inside The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis different is its focus on a narrative written for students and general readers. The author's own transcriptions of the secretly recorded ExComm meetings serves as ...

The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Concise Edition

10 reviews
Philip Zelikow

W. W. Norton & Company, 2002

Fascinating Actual Account of History
To be honest, I bought this book used after seeing the movie "13 Days." In fact, I ordered this book the very night I came home from the movie, wondering if it would be worth the money spent.. Now, having read through it, I must admit that this was a very fascinating and intriguing book. The book is an actual copy (i.e. transcript) of taped conversations that occurred in the Whitehouse during ...

Memory Mambo: A Novel

11 reviews
Achy Obejas

Cleis Press, 1996

Family belonging in a cultural diverse setting
I really enjoyed Achy's Memory Mambo since it opened new ways to see relationships, not only with our own relatives but also with those we choose to be our loved ones. She writes honestly, which takes strenght and a clear vision. I enjoyed Juani's struggle to make sense of her family history in Cuba and the role she plays in helping her family deal with the newness of the United States. I ...

Three Guys from Miami Cook Cuban

54 reviews
Glenn M. Lindgren, Raul Musibay, ...

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2004

Excellent collection
I wanted a Cuban cookbook that gathered all my favorite recipes in one place. This one fits the bill. The recipes are outstanding, easy to execute and authentic. I was impressed by the fact that they even have a short discussion on aji cachucha. Living in the west, I often find restaurants offering "Cuban" black beans, picadillo etc. After the first taste of jalapeno peppers, I realise the ...

La isla de los amores infinitos

9 reviews
Daina Chaviano

Grijalbo, 2006

MARAVILLOSO
No conocia a esta autora, primera vez que leo algo suyo. Es un libro maravilloso, me atrapo como hacia tiempo no lo hacia ninguna novela, es magico. Ademas, como emigrante Venezolana me toco profundamente como narra el nacimiento del comunismo en Cuba. Quiero leer mas libros de Diana.

Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK

115 reviews
Lamar Waldron, Thom Hartmann

Carroll & Graf, 2005

A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT HAPPENED
A clear, understandable recital of the facts. Well documented. One of the best-if not the best,I've read on the subject. There is a great deal of material, but can be digested. Clear and precise in showing WHY and HOW things happened on Nov 22, 1963.

Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

12 reviews
Cristina Garcia

Ballantine Books, 2004

Student TX A&M Kingsville
If you sell books you might what to take off the price that you bought it for. I'm pretty sure I paid more than $1 for the book.

A Sense of Belonging: From Castro's Cuba to the U.S. Senate, One Man's Pursuit of the American Dream

2 reviews
Mel Martinez

Crown Forum, 2008

Excellent, easy read
"A Sense of Belonging" is not your typical autobiography of a Washington insider, which is certainly refreshing. Senator Martinez's story is quite unique, and it is eye-opening to see how he got to be where he is. This touching memoir chronicles both his transition from Communist Cuba to the United States and his transition from a boy to a man. Mr. Martinez was forced to grow up very quickly ...

Cuban Death-Lift

11 reviews
Randy Wayne White

Signet, 2007

Must read for Randy Wayne White fans
Even though the names were different (author and hero) the background foundation for Doc Ford is unmistakable and fun to read. Can't wait to read "The Deadlier Sex" as the follow-up to this great begining for Randy (Striker) Wayne White. I also enjoyed White's present day introduction to this book.

Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy

69 reviews
Carlos Eire

Free Press, 2006

Exhilarating and painful
I left Cuba -with my parents- at the age of eight in 1963. Although my exile experience was much less trumatic than Dr. Eiré's, his depiction of life in that place at that time, seen through the eyes of a child, awakened so many emotions, dormant in my consciousness for so many years! What some reviewers have deplored as aimless ramblings brings me as close as I will ever come to a long ...

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