3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Cuban-American historian at Yale — one of the Pedro Pan children who escaped Cuba without his parents in 1962 — author of Waiting for Snow in Havana (National Book Award, 2003) and A Very Brief History of Eternity — specialist in the Reformation and early modern Catholic history.
Cuban revolutionary and Prime Minister/President (1959–2008) — who led the Cuban Revolution, allied with the Soviet Union, survived 638 CIA assassination attempts (according to Cuban intelligence), nationalized US companies, and maintained a communist dictatorship 90 miles from Florida for 60 years.
Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novella — about old Cuban fisherman Santiago's epic three-day struggle with a great marlin in the Gulf Stream — which won him the Pulitzer Prize (1953) and contributed to his Nobel Prize (1954).