{"product_id":"9780375504891","title":"Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana","description":"From America's number one Cuba reporter, PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we've all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century's wiliest political survivor and his fiefdom, \u003ci\u003eCuba Confidential\u003c\/i\u003e is the gripping story of the shattered families and warring personalities that lie at the heart of the forty-three-year standoff between Miami and Havana.\u003cbr\u003eFamous to many Americans for her cover stories and media appearances, Ann Louise Bardach has been covering Cuba for a decade. She's talked to the crooks, spooks and politicians who have made history, and to their hired assassins and confidants. Based on exclusive interviews with Fidel Castro, his sister Juanita, his former brother-in-law Rafael Díaz-Balart, the family of Elián González, the friends and family of the legendary American fugitive Robert Vesco, the intrepid terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, and the inner circles of Jeb Bush and the late exile leader Jorge Mas Canosa, \u003ci\u003eCuba Confidential\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the hardball take-no-prisoners tactics of the Cuban exile leadership, and its manipulation and exploitation by ten American presidents.\u003cbr\u003eBardach homes in on Fidel Castro and his cronies, taking us closer than we've ever been—and on the militant exiles who have devoted their lives, with CIA connivance, to trying to eliminate him. From Calle Ocho to Juan Miguel González's kitchen table in Cárdenas, from Guantánamo Bay to Union City to Washington, D.C., Ann Louise Bardach serves up an unforgettable portrait of Cuba and its exiles.\u003cp\u003eAuthor Biography: \u003ci\u003eAnn Louise Bardach\u003c\/i\u003e is an award-winninginvestigative journalist who has been covering Cuba for ten years for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, Vanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e and other national publications. She has appeared on \u003ci\u003e60 Minutes, Today, Dateline, \u003c\/i\u003eCNN,\u003ci\u003e The O'Reilly Factor, Charlie Rose\u003c\/i\u003e and NPR. She is coauthor of the bestseller \u003ci\u003eVicki\u003c\/i\u003e and edited the anthology \u003ci\u003eCuba: A Traveler's Literary Companion,\u003c\/i\u003e and is visiting professor of international journalism at the University of California at Santa Barbara.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020552487152,"sku":"9780375504891","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375504891_p0.jpg?v=1763691930","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375504891","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}