Duany, a Puerto Rican intellectual now based at Florida International University, was an inspired choice to write a primer on an island that an important 1901 U.S. Supreme Court ruling described as “belonging to the United States, but not a part of the United States.” Duany reviews Puerto Rico’s political history, its economic booms and busts, and, most brilliantly, its bountiful cultural production.
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