A chronology of the 1950s, including world headlines, news, sports, the arts, and science and technology. Includes a time chart and biographical notes on important people of the time.
Journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at a bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, and his writing style and life are radically changed in ways that carry Quinn through the next ten years as he witnesses violence, revolutions, and the darkest facets of human nature.