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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; 1st Vintage International ed edition (September 29, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0679781803
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679781806
  • Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 8 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars"...the Waking Dream that is Miami"
By Paul Frandano on April 16, 2001
Format: Paperback
I've got a bone to pick with Joan Didion, but first let me say that "Miami" is a simply brilliant piece of noir journalism that, in every paragraph, reflects a different aspect of "the Capital of Latin America." Odd that 1987 saw three major non-fiction Miami treatments, all differently motivated: David Rieff's "Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists and Refugees in the New America," T.D. Allman's "Miami: City of the Future," and Didion's book. Yeah, yeah, at the time, Miami was hot hot hot, Crockett and Tubbs were in the middle of their run, but...Iran-Contragate was also playing itself out, and Miami was an epicenter of Reagan-era, better-dead-than-Red, Contra War intrigue. Didion captures the period beautifully in suitably ominous, conspiratorial tones. She introduces us to a cast of chilling characters--no, wait: she means for us to UNDERSTAND her characters as the driven, chilling, formidable products of "el exilio" and "la lucha"--and leaves no doubt that these are serious men, men who "get things done," men capable of, well, anything.
And my bone? Didion is a wonderful writer who cannot, however, resist long, convoluted, patience-trying Germanic sentences, frontloaded with the universe, embellishing adjective after adjective, wending their way down the page, forestalling all gratification, clarity, or meaning, until finally hitting us between the eyes with the final word-punchline, which invariably leads our eyes to course back up the page in an effort to reconstruct, to rediscover "just where were we going with this." Small price to pay for so delicious a book.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Story Perhaps Only a Novelist Can Tell Well
By Dana Garrett on September 27, 2004
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The story of the Cuban exiles in Miami deserves to be told with drama and passion because that is what it has been. In this page-turner, Joan Didion captures the rejection and racism that the Cuban exiles first encountered in Miami when they emigrated from Cuba after Castro assumed power. She shows how some of the Cubans became successful businesspersons, political powerbrokers, shapers of local culture, renowned humanitarians and philanthropists, expert propagandists, able diplomats, drug runners, muggers, and internationally renowned terrorists.

We see the close relationship the Cuban exiles formed with the USA government, especially its clandestine agencies. We learn that in the 1960s Miami essentially became a CIA recruiting and operational-staging center. Didion tells us that the CIA had as much as 120,000 "regular agents" (full and part-time) stationed in south Florida. It had a flotilla of small boats (often used for terrorist raids on Cuba), making it the third largest navy in the western hemisphere at the time. It owned airline companies in the Miami area and holding companies that lent itself loans for covert operations. "There were [also] hundreds of pieces of Miami real estate, residential bungalows maintained as safe houses, waterfront properties maintained as safe harbors" as well as "fifty five other front businesses" and "CIA boat shops," "guns shops," real-estate, travel and detective agencies (pp. 90-91).

Yet the relationship between the Cuban Americans and the USA has been a troubled one. Although the Cuban Americans find themselves dependent on the USA for maintaining their struggle against Castro, they also don't trust the government, blaming it for their loss at the Bay of Pigs and for adopting policies soft on Castro.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent perspective on Miami
By Maslow on March 6, 2002
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I read this book so many years ago, but I just now realized I had never shared my opnions about it. I had lived in Miami for about eight years, and I think I was in my 5th year or so when I finally heard about "Miami" by Joan Didion. It was only after I had finally moved to the Beach that I happened upon it, at Kafka's. At any rate, it is an excellent book. I think about it every time I hear on the news about the bumbling CIA or news of Castro makes the NYTimes. Incidentally, 1987 also saw the publication of "The Corpse Had a Familiar Face," by Edna Buchanan, another equally excellent non-fiction book about this city. I also highly recommend "A Book of Common Prayer" by Ms. Didion.
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4.0 out of 5 starsOne I enjoyed was the White Album
By John E. Walker on February 7, 2016
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This was written some time ago, but much of it is relevant to today - especially as we currently have two Cubans running for the presidency. If either of them get close then this book becomes required reading.
Joan Didion's writing style is probably not for everyone, but if you stick with it for a few chapters you'll pick up the harmonics and find yourself wondering if maybe you should check out some of her other books as well. One I enjoyed was the White Album. Among the great images she implants in your mind is a tour she took of Ronald and Nancy Reagan's house in Sacramento. She noted how there were no bookcases, and therefore no books in evidence. How could this happen - that we would elect someone who doesn't read? Well it did happen, and it marks the point at which GOP voters started dumbing down and voting for people with whom they'd want to share a beer - and not someone with a vision, wisdom, and the skill to take this great experiment to the next level.
We brought this greatly diminished GOP on ourselves, and it's up to us to fix it - and restore a loyal opposition that works for the common good.
Brief rant aside, my recommendation is to read this book if you're interested in the backstory about the unusual relationship our elected and unelected officials have had with the Cuban community over the years.
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I lived there when all this was going on. I felt the book jumped around a bit I wish there had been more time spent on each topic. Read more

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I was surprised I have not read it earlier,not The usual Anti-Exile/ProCastro slanted work such as Bardach's so-called ' "Confidential" work and other so-called "Experts" even... Read more

Published on August 20, 2011 by Jose Lopez
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