About the Authors
Peter Eisner has
been an editor and reporter at the Washington
Post, Newsday, and the Associated
Press. His 2004 book, The Freedom Line,
was the recipient of the Christopher Award. Eisner also won the InterAmerican
Press Association Award in 1991, and was nominated for an Emmy in 2010 for his
role as producer for the PBS news program, World
Focus. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
Philip Brenner is professor of international relations and an affiliate professor of history at American University. He is a coeditor of A Contemporary Cuba Reader and coauthor of Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba’s Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis.