All the Glory in the World: How hubris and diffidence ignited the streets of Cuba

Event Start Date: March 28, 2022 3:00 PM
Event End Date: March 28, 2022 4:30 PM

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All the Glory in the World: How hubris and diffidence ignited the streets of Cuba
Anthony DePalma
March 28, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm ET
Smathers Library, Rm 100

For more than six decades, Cuba and its leaders have played an outsized role in international affairs, dominating discourse far beyond what a small island nation could expect. And yet, the ordinary Cubans who have lived with the interminable revolution have rarely been heard from.

In his groundbreaking book The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times, award­ winning author and former New York Times correspondent Anthony DePalma gained unprecedented access to a range of Cubans who, in their personal triumphs and tragedies, reveal what it has meant to be Cuban since the Communist government took power in 1959. The Washington Post called The Cubans "an homage to Cuba and the Cuban people that is both heartbreaking and hopeful."

In his talk, Mr. DePalma will lay out the many ways that the lives of the individuals in his book foreshadowed the historic protests that have brought Cuba to the brink of change.

Sponsored by the UF Department of History, The UF Quest Program, and George A. Smathers Libraries