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Ninety miles : Cuban journeys in the age of Castro / Ian Michael James. - Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006. - xi, 203 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-187) and index.

Havana, 1959 -- A musical boy, a beach idyll, a rebel plot -- School, army, jail -- Revolutionaries, "modern music," Havana nights -- Bloodshed, letters home, a love affair -- Razors, religion, Communist youth -- A jazz cruise, a mountain hike, a prison tale -- Mariel -- New York City, campus life, a hunger strike -- Cuban dominoes, the long wait, freedom -- Weariness, a reunion, speaking out -- Boat people -- Guantâanamo -- Facing Castro -- Exile -- Return.

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