Featuring journalist and Back Channel to Cuba coauthor Peter Kornbluh in conversation with University of Michigan Professor Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof.

Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual conflict and aggression between the United States and Cuba since 1959, Peter Kornbluh and William M. LeoGrande's Back Channel to Cuba chronicles a surprising, untold history of bilateral efforts toward rapprochement and reconciliation.

Peter Kornbluh directs the Cuba Documentation Project and the Chile Documentation Project at the National Security Archive in Washington, DC, and is co-author, with William M. LeoGrande, of Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana. Kornbluh is also the author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability and Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba. He writes regularly for The Nation.

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof is Associate Professor of History, American Culture, and Latina/o Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York After 1950.

Free and open to the public; refreshments and light snacks provided.

This program presented by Literati Bookstore with the support of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.