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    <body><![CDATA[A brief and engaging account of the Mafia's Cuba enterprises. Not the most useful knowledge to be found, unless you want to impress your husband during video night by pointing out all of the flaws in The Godfather, Part II. Probably not a good way to set the mood, come to think of it, but who needs ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80845874">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[T.J. English combines a historian's diligence with a crime reporter's appetite for bloody gossip and revealing, sleazy anecdotes. The story of how Lucky Luciano and a cabal of American gangsters worked to turn Havana into a Caribbean Las Vegas (with the help of dictator Fulgencio Batista) has been l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34442498">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent history of the mafia's time in Cuba.  Kennedy, Sinatra, George Raft, Fidel Castro, and many legendary mafia figures are involved in the story. However, the main focus of the history is Meyer Lansky who was the main force behind turning Havana into the mafia's playground.  I have only two c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31704628">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Throughout the 1950's the American Mob, lead by Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano, developed a gambling, resort and entertainment empire in Cuba.  It was a huge undertaking by the Mob to control not only an entire industry, as they had done in Las Vegas, but also to control an entire country.  In Fugen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41266066">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[non fiction account of 2 converging stories that took place in 1940's/1950's Cuba: the Mafia's control of the country and the Castro revolution. interesting to see how closely tied these story lines were and how one directly affected the other, and what happened as they ultimately collided. at one t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71170391">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think it'd be hard to screw up this story, of the Mob's temporary control of Cuba and then their loss of it to Castro, and English presents it really well-- there are lots of characters, lots of moving parts, but by and large, this is a really successful book, a great end of summer read. It's not,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67501862">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cuba is a hot topic right now and soon America may once again allow it's citizens to visit the island.  This book should go on everyones list who wants to travel to Cuba. Mr. English describes a country and a city, Havana, that was the leisure center of North America.  With American law enforcement ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52282616">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When my friend Amanda loaned me this book, I flipped it over to read the description on the back, and it immediately filled my head with visions of gangster and Castro revolutionaries battling in the streets for control of Cuba. If there's a failing in &quot;Havana Nocturne&quot;, it's more mine tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73019396">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Approximately one-third of the way through English's novelistic history of pre-Revolution era Cuba, I am captivated. This is a page-turner that reads like the treatment for a great movie. The movie has already been made, in a sense, considering how closely Andy Garcia's Lost City follows the true hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40010657">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The real story behind the Mob and its move to Cuba. Excellent historical account with press clippings, photos, and interviews. English explains much of the development and evolution of the Mob through the 20th century starting in NYC but covering Chicago, Pennsylvania, New Orleans, South Florida, La...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73026043">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hate to admit how many times I've watched The Godfather and its sequel or how many mafia books I've read on airplanes. And I couldn't resist this one, either. So well written. And I was floored by the vision and audacity of the handful of evil men who created a government in Cuba that was literally ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75720903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like many a book written after the year 2000, I only bought this book because I saw the author being interviewed on <em>The Daily Show.</em> One thing that I love about Jon Stewart is that you can tell when he's actually read the book versus when some poor interns had to come up with succinct, cohesive notes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34898960">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's probably a good book if you're already familiar with the american mob or the cuban revolution but I didn't find it detailed or convincing enough.  And the writing is not good.  He uses &quot;preoccupied&quot; when he means busy, &quot;carrion&quot; when he means animals that eat carrion, a lot ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34572615">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun read about how Cuba was going to become a mobster-owned &quot;nation&quot;.  But, their own greed, Batista's heavy-handedness, and crazy Fidel all combined to make the gambling and boozing and humping capital of the world go down fast.  Author spends too much time on mob minutia, but the gossip ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32016209">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Havana Nocturne by T. J. English<br/><br/>This is a fascinating look at Cuba just before Castro rose to power. <br/><br/>Havana in the 1950s was a steamy, beautiful, sexy city.  Batista was in control of Cuba and the mob was in control of Havana with intentions of turning it into a Monte Carlo-l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30257663">more...</a>]]></body>
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