This essay on Puerto Rico analyzes the deepening crisis in American capitalism and how it inevitably affects Puerto Rico. Essentially, Lewis asks and seeks to answer three questions: What is the nature of Puerto Rican society after a decade of dramatic and traumatic change? What should be the strategy of freedom? What can be, ought to be, the nature of the new Puerto Rican society, once it is released from American rule?

This book encourages learners to notice how language works, promotes cultural awareness, develops creative thinking and problem-solving skills.

"Little Imber on the down, seven miles from any town" reads the old rhyme in one of its many variations and it was this isolation that would lead to the fateful evacuation shortly before Christmas 1943. Dolly spent nearly ten years living at 10 Church Street, Imber. It is her memories that made Imber more than a deserted village, for Dolly had the ability to make the village live again.