Please join the Brown Club of Miami and Nicholas Griffin ’93 for a book chat on The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees and Cocaine in Miami 1980.
It’s an election year. A city is torn apart by riots after the murder of an unarmed black man by police. A sudden burst of immigration overwhelms the nation’s borders. Drugs quietly corrode the very institutions leaders are about to lean on just as the murder rate breaks all records. It’s not 2020. It’s the very American story of Miami in 1980.
Author Nicholas Griffin ’93 spent five years researching Miami’s history to write The Year of Dangerous Days, which opens with the murder of Arthur McDuffie and chronicles the year of tumultuous events that ensue: the Liberty City Riots; the Mariel Boatlift; organized crime within law enforcement and government; a fledgling cocaine industry, and much, much more.
The result is both a clarion call and a kaleidoscopic look at the transformation of one of America’s most popular destination cities. Timed to the 40th anniversary of these pivotal Miami 1980 moments, Griffin’s first-rate reporting shows how, against all odds, the city pieced itself back together into a new Miami.
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About the Author
Nicholas Griffin ’93 is a journalist and author of four novels and three works of nonfiction. His writing has appeared in the Times (UK), the Financial Times, and Foreign Policy, among other publications. His book Ping-Pong Diplomacy was shortlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing.
Nick was born and raised in London, graduated Brown ’93, spent the next twenty years in New York, and moved to Miami in the summer of 2013. He has an English father, an American mother, a Venezuelan wife, a surfing son, a skateboarding daughter, and a very old dog from New Jersey.