{"product_id":"yankee-come-home-on-the-road-from-san-juan-hill-to-guantanamo","title":"Yankee Come Home: On the Road from San Juan Hill to Guantanamo","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eYankee Come Home: On the Road from San Juan Hill to Guantanamo\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eWilliam Craig\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780802710932\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eWalker Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2012\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e448\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Spanish-American War ended over a century ago, but its effects are with us still. In \u003ci\u003eYankee Come Home\u003c\/i\u003e, William Craig travels through Cuba, the birthplace of American imperialism, to find out why our republican ideals died in the glory of San Juan Hill, and to reveal Guantanamo, the corner of Cuba we've never left. I n doing so, he recounts more than a century of the fascinating, but none-too-flattering relationship between the United States and Cuba. Through present-day adventures-spirit-possession rituals, black market odysseys and roots-music epiphanies-Craig explores what that relationship has wrought in the lives of Cubans and A mericans alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCraig was drawn to the Cuban-American story by memories of his mysterious great-grandfather Thomas O'Brien, a self-proclaimed hero of the \"splendid little war\" whose legacy of glorious, painful lies left his own children wondering who he'd really been. Like the reality of \"Papa\" O'Brien's identity, the story of the United States' 1898 intervention in Cuba reflects more hubris than heroism, more avarice than sacrifice. But in the end, despite America's unseemly history there, Craig's journey through Cuba and its history takes him to a greater understanding of both countries. His observation that \"at Guantanamo, freedom is in trouble on both sides of the wire\" applies to the past and present of the United States as well as Cuba.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Walker Books","offers":[{"title":"Yankee Come Home: On the Road from San Juan Hill to Guantanamo | William Craig | Hardcover | 9780802710932 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks F 1763564","offer_id":49287638024344,"sku":"1763564","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81wErw5FjML.jpg?v=1781893413","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/yankee-come-home-on-the-road-from-san-juan-hill-to-guantanamo","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}