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Trudeau, Pierre Three Nights in Havana: Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro and the Cold War World In this fascinating first-ever portrait of an unusual relationship between two enigmatic world leaders, author and historian Robert Wright writes of three critical days when Canadian politics played on the international stage. Wright describes how, long before he was prime minister, Trudeau had attempted to canoe to Cuba, and how Castro visited Montreal as a young revolutionary, later welcoming Front du Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) terrorists to his tiny island. In a revealing look at their personalities and political ideologies, Wright describes how the two leaders, despite official positions as allies of rival empires, had forged a unique friendship. Pierre Trudeau and Fidel Castro became friends despite their differences. They agreed to disagree; the same is true of Canada and Cuba. And it all began on a tiny coral key off Cuba's southern shore in 1976, with the cheer heard round the world: “ Viva el primer ministro Fidel Castro!"-from Three Nights in Havana ISBN: 9780002006262; ISBN-10: 000200626X; On Sale: 02/06/2007; Format: Hardcover; Pages: 320; $34.95(CAN) Symptoms of Withdrawal - A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption by Christopher Kennedy Lawford The firstborn child of famed Rat Pack actor Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy, sister to John F. Kennedy, Christopher Kennedy Lawford grew up with presidents, senators, and movie stars as close relatives and personal friends. Symptoms of Withdrawal is Lawford's portrayal of his life as a Kennedy-a journey filled with hilarious insider anecdotes, heartbreaking accounts of his addictions to narcotics as well as to celebrity. Lawford writes of his experience in Cuba, when he signed to play a real life navy flier in the film thirteen Days—a dramatic recreation in the Kennedy White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He writes: “I, like my family, like most Americans, viewed Cuba as a totalitarian dictatorship, isolated from the world, stubbornly clinging to the defeated Communist ideology, for years a real threat but now just an irritant to American liberty. What I found in Havana was not dissimilar to what I have grown to cherish in my recover, a sense of interdependence and a reliance on something bigger than the individual." ISBN: 9780061131233; ISBN-10: 0061131237; On Sale: 10/10/2006; Format: Trade PB; Trimsize: 5 5/16 x 8; Pages: 448; $19.50(CAN) We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For - Light In A Time of Darkness Taking a line from the poet June Jordan who said 'We are the Ones we have been waiting for' - Alice Walker reasserts the power of the individual in making political change happen. In short, we can 'fix things' by focusing on what we share as human beings rather than what separates us. In a series of essays, speeches, poems, meditations and essays on subjects as diverse as sending our children to war, the rich/poor divide, Nature, the I Ching, modern gender roles, women in the military, and even a piece on her dog Marley, Alice Walker looks towards an optimistic view of the future through a more intuitive understanding of the self and the world around us. She begins her The Dignity of the World (letters of love and hope—the story of the Cuban Five—by writing: “The story of the Cuban Five is one of courage, great sacrifice and love." She then writes the history of the episode. ISBN-10: 0297852728 ISBN-13: 9780297852728 Publication: April 2007 Published by Orion Books U.K. |
