Waiting for Uncle John: Cuba Must Be Ours (a Novel) - Goldsborough, James Oliver
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Waiting for Uncle John is an exciting and fast paced historical novel that tells the story of how a few regiments of soldiers, armed and supported by leading American politicians, set out to capture Cuba from Spain in 1851, the first of various attempts over two centuries to seize control of the island that has bedeviled American life back to Thomas Jefferson. A story of love, adventure and politics, Uncle John reflects the turbulence of the 1850s in America, the crucial years leading up to the Civil War, when the southern states were trying almost anything and everything to retain their way…mehr

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Waiting for Uncle John is an exciting and fast paced historical novel that tells the story of how a few regiments of soldiers, armed and supported by leading American politicians, set out to capture Cuba from Spain in 1851, the first of various attempts over two centuries to seize control of the island that has bedeviled American life back to Thomas Jefferson. A story of love, adventure and politics, Uncle John reflects the turbulence of the 1850s in America, the crucial years leading up to the Civil War, when the southern states were trying almost anything and everything to retain their way of life in a changing world, including trying to annex Cuba to form a slave owning state to add to the power of the South in Congress. Next stop in Manifest Destiny: Havana.
Autorenporträt
James O. Goldsborough is an award-winning writer with a 40-year career in journalism, specializing in foreign affairs. The Misfortunes of Wealth: A Family Memoir, dealing with the disadvantages of inherited money, was published in September, 2008. Goldsborough spent 15 years in Europe as a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, International Herald Tribune, Toronto Star and Newsweek Magazine before returning to America to resume his newspaper career as an editor and columnist. Currently, he writes a column for the Voice of San Diego, an on-line daily newspaper in San Diego that has attracted national attention for news innovations The Paris Herald, his first novel, was published in 2014 by Prospecta Press.