Steamy, Seamy
David Margolick: The Mob’s Cuban Kleptocracy, 20 March 2008
The Havana Mob: Gangsters, Gamblers, Showgirls and Revolutionaries in 1950s Cuba
by T.J. English.
Mainstream, 400 pp., £17.99, September 2007,978 1 84596 192 3 Show More
by T.J. English.
Mainstream, 400 pp., £17.99, September 2007,
“... are the hotels the Mob built, monuments of the decadent, lavish mid-century Cuba depicted in T.J. English’s The Havana Mob. As their uniform architecture suggests, they were all built during the period bookended by the reigns of Fulgencio Batista, who seized power in 1952, and Fidel Castro, who sent him packing on New Year’s Eve less than seven years ... ”