The I Index

The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980

Maybe someday

46

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

74/100

Critics

17/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Nicholas Griffin

Publisher:

37 Ink

Date:

July 14, 2020

The story of the cinematic transformation of Miami, one of America’s most bustling cities—rife with a drug epidemic, a burgeoning refugee crisis, and police brutality—from journalist and author Nicholas Griffin.

What The Reviewers Say

Gilbert King,
The New York Times
...[a] deeply researched narrative.
Roger I. Abrams,
New York Journal of Books
... a well-written narrative of the events of that transformative year.

Kirkus
Miami-based journalist Griffin employs his trade with gusto in this deeply investigated account of real American carnage at the height of the drug war.

Publishers Weekly
In this cinematic chronicle, journalist Griffin...examines how an influx of immigrants, violent race riots, and a cocaine epidemic all collided in Miami in 1980 and led to the radical transformation of the city.