{"product_id":"9781939126153","title":"Miami","description":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eHavana vanities come to dust in Miami\u003c\/em\u003e,” writes Joan Didion at the start of \u003cem\u003eMiami\u003c\/em\u003e, a book that looks beyond the city’s bright pastel facades and sunlit beaches to shadowed scenes, dark history. Didion trains her penetrating vision on Miami’s Cuban exile community during the 1980s, dissecting their hopes and fierce politics, their undying commitment to Castro’s overthrow, and their tangled dynamic with successive American administrations since the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMiami \u003c\/em\u003euncovers a world of “violence, intrigue, vengeance, political manipulation, and broken dreams,” wrote \u003cem\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e upon its 1987 release. In framing her story, Didion offers a hauntingly detailed portrait of the city at a time of booming cocaine-trafficking, racial strife, and skyrocketing murder rates. She also reaches back to the botched 1961 invasion, the Kennedy assassination, and the Watergate break-in, setting forth a disturbing history of America’s foreign policy, especially its Latin America policy, during the Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDownload this first-ever e-book edition of \u003cem\u003eMiami \u003c\/em\u003eand let Joan Didion, working in prose the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e called “masterful,” take you back to this south Florida city in an era of power plays, assassinations, and explosive political passions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zola Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166582358256,"sku":"9781939126153","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781939126153_p0.jpg?v=1763663923","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781939126153","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}