Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780989808521)

Tropicana is to Cuba what the Bolshoi is to Russia, the Moulin Rouge to Paris, or the Blue Note to New York--an enduring cultural mecca. This definitive biography of the place that was known as Paradise Under the Stars, vividly describes the 1950s nightclub that was part casino, part cabaret and was the only club owned and run by Cubans rather than the American mob. Nat "King" Cole, Liberace, and Carmen Miranda performed there before audiences that included Joan Crawford, Marlon Brando, and Ernest Hemingway. The book portrays the cultural richness and roiling social problems of pre-Revolutionary Cuba and takes the reader on a tour of one of the world's most glamorous venues at its most brilliant moment.

Author: Rosa Lowinger, Ofelia Fox
ISBN-10: 0989808521
ISBN-13: 9780989808521
Publisher: Coralstone
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2016
Pages: 438
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.00d