Chavez, Lydia, (ed.). Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century.(Book review) From: Journal of Third World Studies | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2007 Association of Third World Studies, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Chavez, Lydia, (ed.). Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005. 253 pp.

This fascinating collection of thirteen brief essays written by journalists, writers and filmmakers is arranged in four parts: "Inventing," "Breathing," "Surviving," and "Searching" (plus a "Photo Essay Interlude"). Conceived and introduced by Lydia Chavez, a journalism professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the book is designed to explore the possibilities of Castro's dream and its limits at the beginning of the ...