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Featuring hundreds of vintage photographs, postcards, brochures, and other materials evocative of time and place, Havana Before Castro: When Cuba Was a Tropical Playground documents how the city of Havana evolved from Prohibition haven and rich man's playground to a heady blend of glittering nightclubs, outrageous cabarets, all-night bars, and backstreet brothels. Here, captured in one amazing book, is the drama, passion, intrigue, and opulence of a legendary city during its heyday-before the Castro dictatorship re-imagined the country and Americans were banned from travel to this tropical paradise.
An architectural historian by profession, Peter Moruzzi is an acknowledged expert on mid-century Modern architecture and design. He is the founder of the Palm Springs Modern Committee, an internationally recognized historic preservation organization, and the writer/director of Desert Holiday, a documentary film chronicling the history of Palm Springs as seen through vintage postcards. He resides in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles and in Palm Springs.
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	Customer Reviews: Average Rating: Rating : - Doesn't Tell the Full Story "Havana Before Castro" is the typical un-balanced poorly written account of Cuba before Castro. Without doubt, this book is a hit with the Miami Cuban Mafia. The real Cuba before Castro, was an island built by the rich and corrupt for the enjoyment of the rich and corrupt. Drugs, alcohol, and even child prostitution/trafficking prospered while the average citizen (the you's and me's of society) lived in poverty under a system that kept them as ignorant cogs in the wheel of greed. Cubans have a misplaced tendency to think that Cuba before Castro was a wonderland; a land of plenty! It was, a land of plenty poverty and plenty crime. A land where education, health care, clothing, and even your next meal was out of reach. A land where people lived as peasants in shacks; not because of an embargo but because of government sponsored poverty. Need we all remember that the Cuban Revolution was supported by the people because the people were fed up by those who came before Castro. This book should be retitled to "Cuba Before Morals". It is a wonderful collection of pictures and nothing more. + See Full Customer Review

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