Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898 (review)
As soon as I finished this book, I recommended it to a Nuyorican colleague with whom I disagree over the island’s status (independence, commonwealth, or statehood). She emailed me back that she thought the book was “fabulous” and would be using it in her course on Puerto Rico. It is a remarkable book, indeed, that can draw praise from diametrically opposed positions, even more so when the subject is Puerto Rico, so entangled in controversy and painfully caught between the histories of Latin America and the United States.