{"product_id":"to-change-the-world-my-years-in-cuba-9780813544328","title":"To Change the World  My Years in Cuba","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTo Change the World\u003c\/i\u003e, the legendary writer and poet Margaret Randall chronicles her decade in Cuba from 1969 to 1980. Randall gives readers an inside look at her children’s education, the process through which new law was enacted, the ins and outs of healthcare, employment, internationalism, culture, and ordinary people’s lives.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA moving and intimate contemplation of a key historical moment that has been relegated to the margins of political discussion in the wake of the cold war. -- Mark Behr * author of The Smell of Apples *\u003cbr\u003eTo know Cuba, neither analyses nor statistics nor official declarations nor diatribes by its adversaries are enough. One needs eyes infused with heart, passionate eyes, with which to look at the Cuban people in their daily life. In this book Margaret Randall looks at Cuba through such eyes. -- Maria Lopez Vigil * author of Cuba: Neither Heaven Nor Hell *\u003cbr\u003e\"Many ask if those of us who lived the Cuban revolution in flesh and spirit would wage that battle again. Margaret Randall's loving and realistic book reveals why we would. It gives us the highlights and shadows of a process that marked the 20th century like no other.\"THERE SHOULD BE ACUTE ACCENTs OVER THE i IN RODRIGUEZ AND OVER THE o IN CALDERON. -- Mirta Rodriguez Calderon * Cuban revolutionary, journalist, and feminist *\u003cbr\u003eRandall's fondness and indeed admiration for Cuba are unmistakable, especially when she's talking about the nation's systems of health care and education, a premise that will both provoke and anger some readers. Yet Randall's personal reflection on a decade in Cuba is a worthy addition to the ever growing body of literature on Cuba--past and present. -- Boyd Childress * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003eIt is Randall's ability to make the reader a part of her daily encounters that makes her memoir so engaging. Her writing humanizes a revolution all too often stereotyped by the U.S. mainstream press. The contradictions of the Cuban revolution are illustrated movingly by incidents in a mother's daily life. To Change the World not only covers the years Randall spent in Cuba and the months leading up to them, it lays the groundwork for a considered examination of the Cuban situation today, ending the last chapter with an expansive global political and societal analysis. Randall's personal story would have been a page turner in itself, but her choice to bear witness to the larger struggle of the Cuban people at a time in history when many places in the world were engaged in the struggle for social justice makes for a riveting account that will undoubtedly stand the test of time. * National Catholic Reporter *\u003cbr\u003eTo Change the World is a rare double opportunity: an intimate look at the Cuban Revolution from 1969 to 1980, and a fascinating portrait of the development of a historian, poet, and political thinker. * Monthly Review *\u003cbr\u003eTo Change the World is a gripping, affective narrative by one of the most extraordinary feminists of our times--and a cautionary look at how and why the reach of revolution can fall far short of its grasp. * Women's Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eRandall's prose is beautiful and she walks the reader through the beginning of the Cuban Revolution in a way no other sort of text or author could do. * A Contra Corriente *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScarsdale to Havana\u003cbr\u003e Transition\u003cbr\u003e Settling in\u003cbr\u003e Food, food, food\u003cbr\u003e Ten million tons of sugar and eleven fishermen\u003cbr\u003e A poetry contest and a beauty pageant\u003cbr\u003e Women and difference\u003cbr\u003e Information and consciousness\u003cbr\u003e Changing hearts, minds, and law\u003cbr\u003e \"Poetry, like bread, is for everyone\"\u003cbr\u003e El quinquenio gris\u003cbr\u003e The Sandinistas\u003cbr\u003e A question of power\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue","brand":"MW - Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038414242135,"sku":"9780813544328","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813544328.jpg?v=1750940261","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/to-change-the-world-my-years-in-cuba-9780813544328","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}