Pleasure Island
Schwartz, Rosalie
In her scholarly but often fascinating study, Schwartz examines the changing ideas of leisure and recreation in Havana, the 'Paris of the Antilles' to which U.S. tourists thronged for its forbidden enticements and never-ending cabaret. Schwartz's report is heavily tinged with politics, of course, but high spirits and nostalgia also seep from its pages."-Miami Herald. "A well-researched description of tourism in Cuba, mainly from the Twenties t...
