In
C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution, A. Javier
Trevino reconsiders the opinions, perspectives, and insights of the
Cubans that Mills interviewed during his visit to the island in
1960. On returning to the United States, the esteemed and
controversial sociologist wrote a small paperback on much of what
he had heard and seen, which he published as
Listen, Yankee: The
Revolution in Cuba. Those interviews--now transcribed and
translated--are interwoven here with extensive annotations to
explain and contextualize their content. Readers will be able to
"hear" Mills as an expert interviewer and ascertain how he used
what he learned from his informants. Trevino also recounts the
experiences of four central figures whose lives became inextricably
intertwined during that fateful summer of 1960: C. Wright Mills,
Fidel Castro, Juan Arcocha, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The singular
event that compelled their biographies to intersect at a decisive
moment in the history of Cold War geopolitics--with its attendant
animosities and intrigues--
was the Cuban Revolution.