Long After Midnight at the Niño Bien: A Yanqui’s Missteps in Argentina

G. Whitfield Ray

Anything beautiful reminded me of the past. I was deeply nostalgic for an era that I had never known, in a country that was not my own.

The tango was immediately denounced as criminal, lascivious, and immoral; in other words, it was an instant sensation.

Nicolas Shumway in his book The Invention of Argentina.