{"product_id":"9781423603672","title":"Havana Before Castro: When Cuba was a Tropical Playground","description":"Featuring hundreds of vintage photographs, postcards, brochures, and other materials evocative of time and place, Havana Before Castro: When Cuba Was a Tropical Playground documents how the city of Havana evolved from Prohibition haven and rich man's playground to a heady blend of glittering nightclubs, outrageous cabarets, all-night bars, and backstreet brothels. Here, captured in one amazing book, is the drama, passion, intrigue, and opulence of a legendary city during its heyday-before the Castro dictatorship re-imagined the country and Americans were banned from travel to this tropical paradise. \u003cp\u003eAn architectural historian by profession, Peter Moruzzi is an acknowledged expert on mid-century Modern architecture and design. He is the founder of the Palm Springs Modern Committee, an internationally recognized historic preservation organization, and the writer\/director of Desert Holiday, a documentary film chronicling the history of Palm Springs as seen through vintage postcards. He resides in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles and in Palm Springs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smith, Gibbs Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041871544560,"sku":"9781423603672","price":22.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781423603672_p0.jpg?v=1763743536","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781423603672","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}