Fresh insight about one of history's most enigmatic of relationships between nation states, from one of America's best known voices of political and social activism.
Primary author of the famous Port Huron Statement,TOM HAYDENwas a leader in the student, antiwar, and civil rights protests throughout the 1960s. He took up the environmental cause in the 1970s, leading campaigns to shut down nuclear power plants and serving as California's first solar energy official. He was elected to the California legislature in 1982, serving for eighteen years. He continues to write as an editor of theNation, and has taught at universities across the country-from Harvard's Institute of Politics to the UCLA Labor Center. He is currently the director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in California.
"Offers insights into the experiences, perspectives, and historical
claims of the New Left that emerged during the 1960s in the United
States." —Foreign Affairs
"Over half a century after C. Wright Mills published his remarkable
account of the Cuban Revolution, Listen, Yankee!, Tom Hayden
continues the conversation. Hayden was there at the beginning.
Inspired by the struggle for freedom in Cuba, Hayden pushed the New
Left in the US to think about the larger world. And he is here at
the end—or at least the beginning of the end—of the decades-long
embargo Washington used to contain Cuba's promise. This books is
much more than an account of the politics of the current thaw: it
is a memoir and a meditation, a thoughtful reflection on the
inter-American struggles of activists, intellectuals and
politicians for a more just world." —Greg Grandin, author
of The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in
the New World
"At a moment when all eyes are on Cuba, Tom Hayden has written a
must-read book, Listen, Yankee!, on the paired revolutionary
histories of Cuba and the US. As readers of The
Nation know, Hayden has been an important voice in these last
few years, predicting President Obama would normalize relations in
his second term. Guess what, he turned out to get it just right. A
vital book for understanding this watershed moment in our
countries' shared history." —Katrina vanden Heuvel,
editor, The Nation
"Want to understand the historical context for the recent
rapprochement between the United States and Cuba? Then
read Listen, Yankee! Why Cuba Matters, by activist and author
Tom Hayden. Along with high-ranking Cuban insider Ricardo Alarcón,
quoted extensively in the book, Hayden is uniquely positioned to
provide insightful political and cultural background to this new
era in US-Cuban relations." —Patrick Glennon, Truthout
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