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“Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... HE so-called "disad-A MESSAGE vantages" in the life of To GARCIA a child are often its advantages. And on the other hand "advantages" are very often disadvantages of a most serious sort. To be born in the country, of poor parents, is no disadvantage. The strong men in every American city--the men who can do things; the men like James J. Hill, Charles E. Perkins, Philip G. Armour, Norton Finney, S. S. Merrill, or the late Tom Potter, who gloried in difficulties, waxed strong in overcoming obstacles & laughed at disaster--men who could build three miles of railroad a day, and cause prosperous cities to spring up where before were only swamps and jungle, barren plains or endless forest--these men were all country boys, nurtured in adversity ff And it is but the tritest truism to say that the early life of industry and unceasing economy of time and things, was the best possible preparation and education that these men could have had for doing a great work ff A Message I once heard George M. Pullman tell how To GARCIA at ten years of age he used to cut wood so his mother could cook, help her wash the dishes and sweep; carry water for her to do the washing, and assist her hanging out the clothes. In a year or two more he planted the garden, knew all kinds of vegetable seeds on sight, knew every forest tree that grew in Western New York and could distinguish between the qualities of the wood. At seventeen he helped his father move houses and barns and dig wells and construct church steeples. That is to say he was getting an education--learning to do things in the best way. He was developing physique and also building character and making soul-fibre. He was learning to make plans and execute them, think for himself and be strong and...
At the outset of the Spanish-American War, a young lieutenant delivers a vital communication from President McKinley to a commander of Cuban rebels. Inspirational legend remains essential reading for motivational speakers. Includes 14 additional essays, 32 contemplations, and Helpful Hints for Business Helpers.
Ch. 20. Karl Heinrich Marx. 1. ch. IV - Position of the communists in relation to the various existing opposition parties -- ch. 21. Andrew Carnegie. 1. Labor - The upward march of labor. 2. The final relation between capital and labor - labor and capital partners -- ch. 22. Alfred Marshall. 1. ch. V. - The scope of economics. 2. ch. VIII. - Industrial organization -- ch. 23. Russell Conwell. 1. Acres of diamonds. ch. 24. Elbert Hubbard. 1. Publisher's preface. 2. Apologia. 3. A message to Garcia -- ch. 25. Louis Brandeis. 1. Industrial democracy. 2. Absolutism in industry. ch. 26 Thorstein Veblen. 1. An early experiment in trusts -- ch. 27. Alfred North Whitehead. 1. On foresight. 2. Requisites for social progress -- ch. 28. O. Henry. 1. The gift of the Magi. 2. The unknown quantity -- ch. 29. George Santayana. 1. The last puritan, a memoir in the form of a novel - Epilogue -- ch. 30. Irving Fisher. 1. The risk element -- ch. 31. W.E.B. DuBois. 1. The black United States -- ch. 32. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi). 1. The birth of Satyagraha -- ch. 33. Calvin Coolidge. 1. The supports of civilization. 2. Thought, the master of things. 3. The press under a free government. 4. Government and business -- ch. 34. Alfred E. Smith. 1. Post-election radio address -- ch. 35. Owen D. Young. 1. General electric develops a labor policy -- ch. 36. William O. Douglas. 1. ch. I. - The forces of disorder. 1.1. Destructive forces in finance. 1.2. The "curse of bigness". 2. ch. V. - Corporation managements -- ch. 37. Arthur E. Nilsson. 1. Making securities secure -- ch. 38. Fred Schwed, Jr. 1. ch. VIII. - Investment - many questions and a few answers
A fascinating encyclopedic survey of the Spanish-Cuban/American War, the Philippine War, and the small wars between 1899 and the end of the occupation of Haiti in 1934. The name changes themselves are instructive. The usage of "Spanish-American War" ignores the fact that the war in Cuba had been la
A fascinating encyclopedic survey of the Spanish-Cuban/American War, the Philippine War, and the small wars between 1899 and the end of the occupation of Haiti in 1934. The name changes themselves are instructive. The usage of "Spanish-American War" ignores the fact that the war in Cuba had been largely won by the Cuban revolutionaries before US intervention, hence the new title, Spanish-Cuban/American War. The use of "Philippine Insurrection" is replaced by Philippine War, since the Philippine forces had taken much of the islands from Spain before US ground forces arrived. And guerillas or revolutionaries have replaced "bandits," the term used by the US to discredit oppositional forces. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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