1926-2016

Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Peter Shaffer.

Reevaluates the Cuban Missile Crisis, one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history, seeking to explain the attitudes and conduct of the Soviets, Cubans, and Americans, and recreate the heightened fears of countless innocent bystanders whose lives hung in the balance.

The author discusses his life and career as a record producer, especially his discovery of the Beatles and the years he spent working with them.

"[Thirteen-year-old Lora] a young Cuban teenager ... volunteers for Fidel Castro's national literacy campaign and travels into the impoverished countryside to teach others how to read"--Amazon.

"[Thirteen-year-old Lora] a young Cuban teenager ... volunteers for Fidel Castro's national literacy campaign and travels into the impoverished countryside to teach others how to read"--Amazon.

In Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959 the Clutter family is murdered and Carly Fleming, recently arrived from New York, inserts herself into the investigation, along with New York writer Truman Capote.

Looks at Cuba under the control of Fidel Castro.

A definitive account of America's most remarkable espionage plot ever--with CIA agents, mob hitmen, 'kompromat' sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices. In the early 1960s, two top gangsters, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, were hired by the CIA to kill Cuba's Communist leader, Fidel Castro, only to wind up murdered themselves amidst Congressional hearings and a national debate about the JFK assassination. This book revolves around the outlaw friendship of these two mob buddies and their fascinating world of CIA spies, fellow Mafioso in Chicago, Cuban exile commandos in Miami, beautiful Hollywood women, famous entertainers like Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack in Las Vegas, Castro's own spies in Havana and his double agents hidden in Florida, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI snooping, and the Kennedy administration's 'Get Castro' obsession in Washington. Who killed Johnny and Sam--and why wasn't Castro assassinated despite the CIA's many clandestine efforts?.

A biography of Cuban revolutionary and head of state, Fidel Castro, which looks at his childhood, how he became a hero to Cuba, how he led Cuba, and more.