Listen, yankee! : why Cuba matters / Tom Hayden.

Based in part on conversations with Ricardo Alarcón.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-277) and index.

Preface : the day they said would never come -- Introduction: two old guys talking -- "A heroic creation" -- The revolutionary war, 1956-59 -- The cuban revolution and the american new left -- C. Wright Mills, Cuba, and the new left -- From the cuban missile crisis to counterinsurgency -- JFK's assassination -- Latin American revolution -- Enter and exit Régis Debray -- The revolutionary flame -- The cuban revolution goes global -- The liberal democrat's default : the Carter era -- The Clinton years : yielding to the cuban right -- Rethinking marxism, rethinking the Americas -- A new model in our Americas -- Rescuing Elián González, losing Al Gore -- Listen, Yankee!

Based on unprecedented access to both Cuban and American officials, a book that offers fresh insight into one of history's most enigmatic relationships between nation-states—from one of America's best-known voices of political and social activism. Listen, Yankee! offers an account of Cuban politics from Tom Hayden's unique position as an observer of Cuba and as a US revolutionary student leader whose efforts to mobilize political change in the US mirrored the radical transformation simultaneously going on in Cuba. Chapters are devoted to the writings of Che Guevara, Régis Debray, and C. Wright Mills; the Cuban missile crisis; the Weather Underground; the assassination of JFK; the strong historical links between Cuba and Africa; the Carter era; the Clinton era; the Cuban Five; Elián González; and the December 17, 2014 declaration of normalization by presidents Obama and Castro. Hayden puts the present moment into historical context, and shows how we're finally finding common ground to the advantage of Cubans and Americans alike.