Today marks the release of the second podcast that I’ve been on to talk about my new oral history book, “Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away: Memories of Early Cuban Exiles.” It’s the “Welcome to Florida” podcast hosted by best-selling author Craig Pittman and his...
I’m pleased to have been invited to present my new oral history book, “Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away: Memories of Early Cuban Exiles,” at Leadership Florida’s 40th Annual Meeting this year. I’ll be part of the Writer’s Circle of other LF authors and get to tell my...
I’m looking forward to the “Word of South” literary and music festival in Tallahassee’s Cascades Park. On Saturday, I’ll moderate a panel with three authors who won Florida Book Awards in 2021 for nonfiction works about installment sales schemes in the 1950s (Jason...
Delighted to see that the Tampa-based digital magazine 83 Degrees just published an excerpt from my oral history book about Cuban exiles who came to this country in the first fifteen years after Fidel Castro took power in 1959. This excerpt features two exiles from...
I recently posted an item about the daughter of one of the narrators in my oral history book about Cuban exiles, Ambassador Julieta Valls Noyes, a career foreign service officer who was nominated by President Biden as Assistant Secretary of State for Population,...
Thanks to the FSU Law School for including a blurb about my new oral history book on Cuban exiles in the school's weekly email newsletter. I was especially pleased that the short piece about my book followed a longer piece commemorating Women's History Month by paying...
I was delighted to learn that the publisher of my oral history book about Cuban exiles, “Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away,” just promoted my editor, Stephanye Hunter, to be Editor-in-Chief. With her unerring judgment, she made a major contribution to my book, from its...
I had an excellent discussion today at the FSU Law School about my oral history book on Cuban exiles. The students in the Cuban American Bar Association that I met with, and those associated with the Center for the Advancement of Human Rights, had great questions that...
One of the narrators in my oral history book about Cuban exiles, Julieta Valls of Miami, just sent me a copy of a Tweet about my book from her daughter, Ambassador Julieta Valls Noyes, a career foreign service officer who has been nominated by President Biden to serve...
Excited about presenting my oral history book about Cuban exiles at the FSU Law School on Wednesday to students in the Cuban American Bar Association and the Center for the Advancement of Human Rights. Should be a lively discussion. #oralhistory #patriayvida