The Real Fidel Castro
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The Real Fidel Castro
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Author : Leycester Coltman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Real Fidel Castro written by Leycester Coltman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The former British ambassador to Cuba provides an intimate look at the life of the Cuban dictator.
Cuba 1952 1959
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Author : Manuel Márquez-Sterling
language : en
Publisher: Kleiopatria Digital Press
Release Date : 2009
Cuba 1952 1959 written by Manuel Márquez-Sterling and has been published by Kleiopatria Digital Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Cuba categories.
Author Manuel Márquez-Sterling writes about Fidel Castro and his revolution from direct personal experience, as a historian with broad and deep knowledge of 50s Cuba. The author knew and had contact with many of the historical figures in the book's pages. His penetrating analysis of the public and behind-the-scenes events clears the fog and shatters myths to reveal the real story of the Cuban Revolution. The book explains how Castro came to power through the convergence of rabid partisanship, radical student politics, media bias, and venal politicians who placed self interest ahead of preserving democracy. Facing a constitutional crisis, these parties espoused "the end justifies the means," embracing political gangsterism and eschewing negotiations with political opponents- resulting in a power vacuum Castro exploited to seize power. Masterful propaganda cast Castro as pro-democracy hero, avoiding scrutiny of his plans for a totalitarian state under his control.
The Real Fidel Castro
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Author : Leycester Coltman
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01
The Real Fidel Castro written by Leycester Coltman and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Rhetoric during and after the Cold War years has painted starkly contrasting portraits of Cuba's Fidel Castro: an unblemished idealist on the one hand, a ruthless dictator on the other. This insightful book, the most intimate and dispassionate biography of the revolutionary leader to date, shows that neither assessment is true. Leycester Coltman, British ambassador to Cuba in the early 1990s, came as close to personal friendship with Castro as any foreigner was permitted. With frequent contact and regular conversations, Coltman was in a unique position to observe the dictator's personality in both public and private situations. Here he presents a close-up view of the man who for half a century has been loved, admired, feared, and hated, but seldom really understood. Coltman chronicles the events of the Cuban leader's extraordinary life from the political activism of his university days in Havana to periods of exile, imprisonment, and guerilla warfare alongside Che Guevara, to the uncertainties of his old age. Drawing on personal observation and archival sources in Cuba and abroad, Coltman explores the contradiction between the private character and the public reputation, and highlights the complexities of the consummate actor who continues to play a crucial role on the international stage.
My Life
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Author : Ignacio Ramonet
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-06-09
My Life written by Ignacio Ramonet and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In a series of interviews with a European journalist and scholar, the Cuban leader describes his early life, the Cuban Revolution, and his experiences ruling Cuba, and discusses his views on socialism, international affairs, and the future.
Who Was Fidel Castro
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Author : Sarah Fabiny
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-08-22
Who Was Fidel Castro written by Sarah Fabiny and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-22 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
When Fidel Castro died on November 25, 2016, many people around the world responded with mixed emotions. Learn all about the man who shaped Cuba for more than half a decade. After overthrowing Fulgencia Batista in 1959, Fidel Castro became the leader of an island country only ninety miles away from Florida. While in power, Castro outlasted ten US presidents and turned the small nation into a one-party state with influence over the entire world. Called a leader by some and a dictator by others, Castro defined not one but several eras in world politics.
Castro S Revolution
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Author : Juan M. Clark
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-01-27
Castro S Revolution written by Juan M. Clark and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-27 with Cuba categories.
Professor Juan M. Clark, PhD. spent over 40 years of his life studying the Cuban Revolution and the effects it had not only in Cuba but around the world. He also conducted numerous interviews with persons who knew Fidel Castro in a personal way, his former schoolmates, guerrilla companions, even his favorite teacher. The product of all his investigations is this book, probably the most complete ever written on the man and his revolution. Cubans say that nobody will understand what living in Cuba today entails unless "you experience it". This book will give you, the reader, a clearer idea of what living in Cuba was during the first year of Castro's revolution and then through the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s and the beginning of the XXI century. It will also give you a rare insight into Fidel Castro's personality and behavior. This book is an eye opener that will let you know who the real Fidel Castro is.
The Tiger And The Children
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Author : Roberto Luque Escalona
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1992
The Tiger And The Children written by Roberto Luque Escalona and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
This may well be the most significant piece of writing to come out of Cuba in 33 years - or the life of the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Since Fidel Castro has always made the claim that "History Shall Absolve Me," the author of this book, journalist, writer and human rights activist, Roberto Luque Escalona, subjects this self-inflicted judgment to the facts of real history and finds that history shall condemn rather than absolve the long-standing dictator of Cuba.The Castro regime is besieged by internal and external pressures. The worsening economic crisis in Cuba is the result of changes taking place in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, where nations that have begun liberating themselves from the yoke of totalitarian regimes have made it evident that the Castro government is simply ill prepared to respond to new winds of doctrine or to accept a situation in which Castro no longer is sovereign ruler. How Castro got the way he is is at the heart and soul of this extraordinary memoir - filled with a level of intimate details unrivaled in any other analysis.Robert Luque Escalona is not a persecuted figure or a world-famous dissident - or at least he was not until the publication of The Tiger and the Children. Nor is this a prison memoir. He belongs to the immense anonymous majority that suffers in silence the consequences of a disastrous dictatorship. The author has defied Fidel from his position as a free man - free at least in spirit - conscious of the consequences of such a bold statement. This is a consummate work of social history, political analysis, and moral judgment. It will be read by everyone from Latin Americanists to those interested in the real character of comparative politics.
The Secret Fidel Castro
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Author : Servando Gonzalez
language : en
Publisher: InteliNet/InteliBooks
Release Date : 2001
The Secret Fidel Castro written by Servando Gonzalez and has been published by InteliNet/InteliBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Secret Fidel Castro is neither a history of the Cuban revolution nor a biography of Fidel Castro. The book was written following what intelligence services call a CPP (short for Comprehensive Personality Profile), similar to the ones intelligence services keep on foreign leaders. It focuses on different aspects of Castro's actions and personality which, for some reasons, have been either ignored, misunderstood, or misrepresented. The main thesis of this book is that there are many different Castros. The most widely known is the symbolic, public one, as it has been portrayed in official Cuban propaganda, Castro-friendly biographies, and mainstream American media. But there are also many secret Castros, highly different from the public one. The Secret Fidel Castro focuses on little known aspects of Castro's personality, important in the better understanding of the man and his actions?what really makes him tick.
Fidel
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Author : Humberto Fontova
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-02-25
Fidel written by Humberto Fontova and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Fidel exposes the hypocrisy of Castro's liberal fan club, delivering the brutal truth about the tyrant the Fidelistas call the first and greatest hero to appear in the world.
Inside The Cuban Revolution
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Author : Julia Sweig
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2004-10-25
Inside The Cuban Revolution written by Julia Sweig and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-25 with History categories.
Julia Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and restores to a central position the leadership of the Cuban urban underground, the Llano. Granted unprecedented access to the classified records of Castro's 26th of July Movement's underground operatives--the only scholar inside or outside of Cuba allowed access to the complete collection in the Cuban Council of State's Office of Historic Affairs--she details the ideological, political, and strategic debates between Castro's mountain-based guerrilla movement and the urban revolutionaries in Havana, Santiago, and other cities. In a close study of the fifteen months from November 1956 to July 1958, when the urban underground leadership was dominant, Sweig examines the debate between the two groups over whether to wage guerrilla warfare in the countryside or armed insurrection in the cities, and is the first to document the extent of Castro's cooperation with the Llano. She unveils the essential role of the urban underground, led by such figures as Frank País, Armando Hart, Haydée Santamaria, Enrique Oltuski, and Faustino Pérez, in controlling critical decisions on tactics, strategy, allocation of resources, and relations with opposition forces, political parties, Cuban exiles, even the United States--contradicting the standard view of Castro as the primary decision maker during the revolution. In revealing the true relationship between Castro and the urban underground, Sweig redefines the history of the Cuban Revolution, offering guideposts for understanding Cuban politics in the 1960s and raising intriguing questions for the future transition of power in Cuba.