MUSEUM LECTURE: Tom Gjelten -- Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba -- Gables

Start: Jan 24 2013 7:00 pm

MUSEUM LECTURE: NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten will give a talk based on his book, Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba (Viking, $17) that fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought worldwide fame to the island, and in the decades that followed his Bacardi descendants participated in every aspect of Cuban life. With his intimate account of their struggles and adventures across five generations, Gjelten brings to life the larger story of Cuba's fight for freedom, its tortured relationship with America, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the violent division of the Cuban nation. This event is presented in collaboration with Books & Books and in conjunction with the exhibition, Bacardi: Architecture, Art & Identity, curated by professor and author Allan Shulman and sponsored by Bacardi that is currently on view at the Coral Gables Museum through February 17, 2013. The talk begins promptly at 7pm. For more information: info@coralgablesmuseum.org