CONTENTS

PREFACE
The Day They Said Would Never Come

INTRODUCTION
Two Old Guys Talking

CHAPTER 1
“A Heroic Creation”

CHAPTER 2
The Revolutionary War, 1956–59

CHAPTER 3
The Cuban Revolution and the American New Left

CHAPTER 4
C. Wright Mills, Cuba, and the New Left

CHAPTER 5
From the Cuban Missile Crisis to Counterinsurgency

CHAPTER 6
JFK’s Assassination

CHAPTER 7
Latin American Revolution

CHAPTER 8
Enter and Exit Régis Debray

CHAPTER 9
The Revolutionary Flame

CHAPTER 10
The Cuban Revolution Goes Global

CHAPTER 11
The Liberal Democrats’ Default:
The Carter Era

CHAPTER 12
The Clinton Years:
Yielding to the Cuban Right

CHAPTER 13
Rethinking Marxism, Rethinking the Americas

CHAPTER 14
A New Model in Our Americas

CHAPTER 15
Rescuing Elián González, Losing Al Gore

CHAPTER 16
Listen, Yankee!

EPILOGUE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES