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Article: Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy
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- Cuban Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Louis A. Pérez Jr. Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. 336 pp.
There is an enduring and popular myth in the United States that we went to war with Spain in 1898 to free Cuba from the Spanish empire. Lou Ferez, for my money the best historian writing about United States-Cuban relations in the English language today, effectively explodes that myth and does so in such a way as to cast an insightful light on American attitudes that even a century later stand in the way of a sensible U.S. policy toward the island.
Pérez begins by pointing out that all during the nineteenth century, American political leaders had regarded Cuba as of ...