Cuba the Morning After By Mark Falcoff  AEI Press, $35, 303 pages

Review excerpt:

Cock-eyed optimists about Cuba's prospects after Fidel better read Mark Falcoff, a true expert on the island and its prospects. The AEI scholar has published Cuba: The Morning After, a sobering account of precisely what Fidel Castro's legacy is and what Cuba has to do to overcome it. His analysis is not at all reassuring. But it is timely.

Roger Fontaine was a member of the National Security Council staff during the first Reagan administration.