Historian and journalist, author of six books, including Cuba Libre!, Pagan Holiday, Napoleon's Privates and The Sinner's Grand Tour
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Joined May 2011
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Here’s my introduction to the most elegant literary salon in Rome…Thank you to the brilliant Alexandra Massini for hosting a unique night celebrating books, ideas, music and 1am pasta with friends
What’s Up America @peoplepubit @FranzFoti photos by @TonyPerrottet
Today is the 60th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs! My visit to the CIA's training camp: smithsonianmag.com/travel/fl…
My take on the brave new world of NYC museum openings in WSJ today wsj.com/articles/new-yorks-s… via @WSJ
And a footnote to @WednesdayMartin episode, "Columbus Discovers the Clitoris" and other milestones of modern love... historyunzipped.com
Hear the hilarious @WednesdayMartin discuss "the science of lust" through history on Episode 4 of the historyunzipped.com Podcast...
Celebrity body parts: a footnote to @davidfarley on Jesus' foreskin -- the organs of Napoleon, King Tut and John Dillinger and other grisly relics, on the History Unzipped podcast tinyurl.com/yc5a8tez
Hear @davidfarley dish the dirt on Jesus' foreskin on the new episode of the History Unzipped Podcast... (below The Circumcision of Christ by Friedrich Herlin) tinyurl.com/yb7kk4q8
Was Charles Darwin a player? Who invented key parties? The latest on sexual evolution in new "History Unzipped" episode with @ThatChrisRyan: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Come for the scandalous history, stay for @TonyPerrottet's charming accent...
My new Podcast on "erotic archaeology" just went live -- first episode @KarenAbbott on American Vice podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
My new Podcast on "erotic archaeology" just went live -- first episode @KarenAbbott on American Vice podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
My latest from Cuba: What's Ernesto Guevara, son of the world's most recognizable revolutionary, doing on a Harley Davidson? Leading a whirlwind tour around his native island po.st/tiQYKC via @po_st
Awesome to chat with Scott Simon on NPR's Weekend Edition this morning about America's 1959 "Fidelmania" -- Castro's riotous visit to New York was 60 years ago this week! n.pr/2VbCdBL
¡Vivan Los Fashionistas! My take on how "guerrilla fashion" infiltrated the US in the Times Style section: nyti.ms/2Xmk2qJ
Yay!!!! Great review from LARB: Love and Loss in the Sierra Maestra: On Tony Perrottet’s “¡Cuba Libre!” - Los Angeles Review of Books: Love and Loss in the Sierra Maestra: On Tony Perrottet’s “¡Cuba Libre!” lareviewofbooks.org/article/… via @lareviewofbooks
My story in Smithsonian out now: At Lost Spirits Distillery in Los Angeles, high-tech instruments accelerate the aging process of precious whiskeys and rums po.st/4KOjKt via @po_st
My take on Havana, from research trips there for Cuba Libre! newsweek.com/havana-cuba-tra…
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"It's better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way."
-- Alan Watts
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(Friendly reminder for my February 19 NYC The Stowaway Paperback Launch at KGB’s stunning. Third floor Red Room ) -ThoughtGallery.org thoughtgallery.org/events/ny…
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Estados Unidos tenía un romance con Fidel Castro y su revolución. Pero el idilio terminó muy pronto, escribe el historiador @TonyPerrottet nyti.ms/2G9LGSb
