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The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980
By Nicholas Griffin
It’s 1980 - a tumultuous year for Miami. The city explodes in one of the worst race riots in American history, more than 125,000 Cuban refugees land south of Miami, and drug cartels flood the city with cocaine and infiltrate law enforcement. Against all odds, the city perseveres, and a stronger, more vibrant Miami begins to emerge.
Tom Fontana is attached as showrunner.
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“Utterly absorbing… startling… There is never a dull moment. It’s impossible to read Griffin’s timely and searing account without thinking about its implications for our current moment.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Journalist and award-winning author, Nicholas Griffin, talks with Mitchell Kaplan about the most dangerous year in Miami’s history, 1980, and his new book, The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980. From the Mariel boatlift, cocaine cowboys to the deadly riots that followed the acquittal of four police officers in the death of Arthur McDuffie, a Black, 33-year-old insurance salesman.