Cold War - Catalinotto, John
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Whether you lived through the 1960s or were born later and are fascinated by the Civil Rights and anti-war struggles and cultural upheavals of that era, you will find Cold War ¿ A Love Story, by John Catalinotto, engrossing reading. Joe Cozzo, the novel's protagonist, is a living, breathing contradiction: a math student from New York City who becomes a fighter, first against the war in Vietnam and racist discrimination, and then for world revolution. The plot follows Joe from the Berlin Wall in 1961 to the Bronx in 1963 to the turmoil in the U.S. Armed Forces, to the Paris uprising of students…mehr

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Whether you lived through the 1960s or were born later and are fascinated by the Civil Rights and anti-war struggles and cultural upheavals of that era, you will find Cold War ¿ A Love Story, by John Catalinotto, engrossing reading. Joe Cozzo, the novel's protagonist, is a living, breathing contradiction: a math student from New York City who becomes a fighter, first against the war in Vietnam and racist discrimination, and then for world revolution. The plot follows Joe from the Berlin Wall in 1961 to the Bronx in 1963 to the turmoil in the U.S. Armed Forces, to the Paris uprising of students and workers in May 1968 to Portugal's Carnation Revolution in 1974-75. Joe, his first love, Diane, his comrades Mirabelle, Tomi, Danny, Manuel and Urbano are all fictitious figures strongly inspired by real people the author met in his six decades of militancy. Some readers will recall the convictions, struggles and defeats of those times. Others will want to absorb the atmosphere and lessons of that history as they face today's challenges.
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Born in 1940 in Brooklyn, John Catalinotto grew up and still resides in New York City. From one window of his Chelsea apartment he can see the Empire State Building. From another window he looked out on the World Trade Center, where he would have been on Sept. 11, 2001, had he arrived on time for work. Coming of age at the height of the Cold War, his moment of truth was the October 1962 missile crisis, which propelled him into a life of political activism. From 1967 to 1971 he organized U.S. service members against the war in Vietnam, an experience described in a history he wrote of that period. Since 1982 Catalinotto has been a managing editor of the weekly socialist newspaper Workers World. His addiction to learning languages, reinforced by feelings of international solidarity, enabled him to address political forums in six languages on five continents. Since retiring from teaching mathematics in 2011, he has translated articles into English at workers.org and at tlaxcala-int.blogspot.com. Catalinotto never dreamed of writing a novel until persistent memories of youthful trauma led to the realization that the best route to truth is often through fiction; he then wrote Cold War ¿ A Love Story. Catalinotto is the author of Turn the Guns Around: Mutinies, Soldier Revolts and Revolution, World View Forum, New York 2017, and edited Hidden Agenda: U.S./NATO Takeover of Yugoslavia, International Action Center, New York, 2002.