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Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence, f
rom the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean.

It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generationsof Castro’s enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without is where the bitter opera of Cuban exile intersects with the cynicism of policy. It is a city whose skyrocketing murder rate is fueled by the cocainetrade, racial discontent, and an undeclared war on the island ninety miles to thesouth.

As Didion follows Miami’s drift into a Third World capital, she also locatesits position in the secret history of the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs to the Reagandoctrine and from the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate break-in.