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Title: The Elian Gonzalez case of the 19th Century
Review: If you want to understand the attitudes behind the Elian Gonzalez case, you can do no better than to read this book. Today as I'm reading the newspaper, I feel like I'm reading this book all over again. It is uncanny how similar are the attitudes of many American authorities toward Cuba (especially the Republicans in Congress) to the attitudes of the Catholic Church and the public toward the Jews. One reason the Church was able to get away with kidnapping Edgardo Mortara was that many people could not understand why a family would want to remain Jewish--just as people today cannot understand or accept as legitimate that Elian's family wants to remain in Cuba.
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