Louis A. Pérez Jr., a leading American scholar of Cuba and author of many prizewinning books on Cuban history -- including his five most recent books published proudly by UNC Press -- was celebrated by colleagues, friends, and family last month on his induction into the 2008 class of Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. A surprise party at the home of Lou's University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill colleague Lars Schoultz featured a sheet cake...