Jeanine cornillot biography books
An Emmy Award-winning producer, Jeanine Cornillot began her career as a documentary editor and has written and produced shows for CBS, NBC, and ABC..
Hardcover. Condition: New. NEW: US SELLER SHIPS FROM USA. NEW: Family Sentence: The Search for My Cuban-Revolutionary, 2009 HARDCOVER Family Sentence: The Search for My Cuban-Revolutionary, Prison-Yard, Mythic-Hero, Deadbeat Dad Hardcover October 1, 2009 by Jeanine Cornillot (Author) OUR REFERENCE: ORD3-S0-HC-0807000388-1P5-B10-2009 DESCRIPTION Jeanine Cornillot was just two years old when her father, a former Cuban revolutionary turned anti-Castro militant, was sentenced to thirty years in a Florida prison for political bombings.
Family Sentence.
His absence left a single mother to raise four children who kept his incarceration a secret and conjured a mythic father-hero out of his occasional letters. Jeanine s Irish American mother struggled to support the family in suburban Philadelphia.
Summers, she put Jeanine on a plane to Little Havana, where she lived with her Spanish-speaking grandparents and bilingual cousin€”a sometimes unreliable translator. It was there in Florida that