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It really is where Fidel Castro elevated money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro's enemies have elevated armies to overthrow him, up to now without success. It really is where the bitter opera of Cuban exile intersects with the cynicism of U.S. overseas policy. It really is a city whose skyrocketing murder rate is fueled by the cocaine trade, racial discontent, and an undeclared conflict on the island 90 kilometers to the south. As Didion follows Miami's drift into a Third World capital, she also locates its position in the secret history of the Cool War, from the Bay of Pigs to the Reagan doctrine and from the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate break-in. Miami is not only a portrait of an city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, interest, hypocrisy, and politics violence.
