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Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. This unprecedented inside look at Cuba offers the first discussion in English of the way radical changes in the island's economy and society in the 1990s created a new environment for rethinking the country's future. Written and first published in Spanish by a Cuban political scientist--who is also a socialist, a poet, and a sociologist--the essays set off sharp debate in Cuba about civil society, public opinion, culture, and politics. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket. Rafael Hernández is the editor of Temas, the leading Cuban magazine in the social sciences and the humanities, which is renowned for its contribution to intellectual controversy on the island. He is a senior research fellow at the Centro de Investigación de la Cultura Cubana Juan Marinello in Havana and is the author or editor of several books, including Cuba and the Caribbean and United States-Cuban Relations in the Nineties. Dick Cluster, lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, has translated the work of a variety of Cuban literary figures including Abel Prieto, Pedro de Jesus, Mirta Yáńez, Aida Bahr, Mylene Fernández, and Antonio José Ponte. He is the author of novels and historical works including They Should Have Served That Cup of Coffee.