{"product_id":"9781423609933","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, \u003ci\u003eHavana Before Castro: When Cuba Was a Tropical Playground\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An architectural historian by profession, \u003cb\u003ePeter Moruzzi\u003c\/b\u003e is an acknowledged expert on midcentury 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.","brand":"Smith, Gibbs Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127764926704,"sku":"9781423609933","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781423609933_p0.jpg?v=1769899433","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781423609933","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}