Author: Fidel Castro
Publisher: Ocean Press
ISBN: 1920888888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
By his mastery of the spoken word, Fidel Castro reveals the unfolding process of the Cuban revolution, its extraordinary challenges, crises, chaos and achievements. Part of a two-volume anthology, this first volume is based on Castro's speeches.
Fidel Castro Reader
Author: Fidel Castro
Publisher: Ocean Press
ISBN: 1920888888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
By his mastery of the spoken word, Fidel Castro reveals the unfolding process of the Cuban revolution, its extraordinary challenges, crises, chaos and achievements. Part of a two-volume anthology, this first volume is based on Castro's speeches.
Publisher: Ocean Press
ISBN: 1920888888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
By his mastery of the spoken word, Fidel Castro reveals the unfolding process of the Cuban revolution, its extraordinary challenges, crises, chaos and achievements. Part of a two-volume anthology, this first volume is based on Castro's speeches.
Cuban Revolution Reader
Author: Julio GarcĂa Luis
Publisher: Ocean Press (AU)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Part of a series of books to be published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, this anthology is based upon primary source material and documents the key moments of the revolution and its impact outwith Cuba.
Publisher: Ocean Press (AU)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Part of a series of books to be published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, this anthology is based upon primary source material and documents the key moments of the revolution and its impact outwith Cuba.
Fidel
Author: Fidel Castro
Publisher: Ocean Press
ISBN: 9781920888091
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
An exclusive collection of Fidel Castro's remarkably frank writings about his formative years. Features an introduction by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and includes previously unpublished personal reflections by the Cuban President.
Publisher: Ocean Press
ISBN: 9781920888091
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
An exclusive collection of Fidel Castro's remarkably frank writings about his formative years. Features an introduction by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and includes previously unpublished personal reflections by the Cuban President.
Inside the Cuban Revolution
Author: Julia Sweig
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of Castro and Guevara and restores to a central position the leadership of 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 debates between Castro's mountain-based guerrilla movement and the urban revolutionaries in Havana, Santiago, and other cities.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of Castro and Guevara and restores to a central position the leadership of 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 debates between Castro's mountain-based guerrilla movement and the urban revolutionaries in Havana, Santiago, and other cities.
Who Was Fidel Castro?
Author: Sarah Fabiny
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451533348
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451533348
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
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.
My Early Years
Author: Fidel Castro
Publisher: Ocean Press (AU)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
This is the first autobiographical selection to be published in English that gives a glimpse of Fidel - the boy and the young man - who was to become one of the outstanding, if controversial, political leaders of the century. The book brings together a range of interviews and talks in which Fidel Castro speaks candidly about his family background, his religious education and political influences.
Publisher: Ocean Press (AU)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
This is the first autobiographical selection to be published in English that gives a glimpse of Fidel - the boy and the young man - who was to become one of the outstanding, if controversial, political leaders of the century. The book brings together a range of interviews and talks in which Fidel Castro speaks candidly about his family background, his religious education and political influences.
The Cuba Reader
Author: Aviva Chomsky
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478004568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
Tracking Cuban history from 1492 to the present, The Cuba Reader includes more than one hundred selections that present myriad perspectives on Cuba's history, culture, and politics. The volume foregrounds the experience of Cubans from all walks of life, including slaves, prostitutes, doctors, activists, and historians. Combining songs, poetry, fiction, journalism, political speeches, and many other types of documents, this revised and updated second edition of The Cuba Reader contains over twenty new selections that explore the changes and continuities in Cuba since Fidel Castro stepped down from power in 2006. For students, travelers, and all those who want to know more about the island nation just ninety miles south of Florida, The Cuba Reader is an invaluable introduction.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478004568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
Tracking Cuban history from 1492 to the present, The Cuba Reader includes more than one hundred selections that present myriad perspectives on Cuba's history, culture, and politics. The volume foregrounds the experience of Cubans from all walks of life, including slaves, prostitutes, doctors, activists, and historians. Combining songs, poetry, fiction, journalism, political speeches, and many other types of documents, this revised and updated second edition of The Cuba Reader contains over twenty new selections that explore the changes and continuities in Cuba since Fidel Castro stepped down from power in 2006. For students, travelers, and all those who want to know more about the island nation just ninety miles south of Florida, The Cuba Reader is an invaluable introduction.
Face to Face with Fidel Castro
Author: Fidel Castro
Publisher: Ocean Press (AU)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The issues confronting a changing world are frankly discussed in this lively dialogue between two of Latin America's most controversial political figures. In this wide-ranging conversation, Fidel Castro discusses the collapse of the Soviet Union, an historical evaluation of Stalin, the future of socialism, the role of ideas in today's world, Cuba's relations with the United States from Kennedy to Bush, human rights in the Third World, homosexuality, literature and music. Face to face with Fidel Castro is one of the most important political books to emerge from Latin America in the 1990s.
Publisher: Ocean Press (AU)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The issues confronting a changing world are frankly discussed in this lively dialogue between two of Latin America's most controversial political figures. In this wide-ranging conversation, Fidel Castro discusses the collapse of the Soviet Union, an historical evaluation of Stalin, the future of socialism, the role of ideas in today's world, Cuba's relations with the United States from Kennedy to Bush, human rights in the Third World, homosexuality, literature and music. Face to face with Fidel Castro is one of the most important political books to emerge from Latin America in the 1990s.
Fidel and Religion
Author: Fidel Castro
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The product of an intimate 23 hour dialogue between Fidel Castro and Brazilian liberation theologist Frei Betto. Castro speaks candidly about his views on religion and his education in elite Catholic colleges, offering a unique insight into the man behind the beard.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The product of an intimate 23 hour dialogue between Fidel Castro and Brazilian liberation theologist Frei Betto. Castro speaks candidly about his views on religion and his education in elite Catholic colleges, offering a unique insight into the man behind the beard.
The Double Life of Fidel Castro
Author: Juan Reinaldo Sanchez
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250068762
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A revelatory memoir of the 17 years Juan Sanchez spent as one of Fidel Castro's personal soldiers, in his innermost circle
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250068762
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A revelatory memoir of the 17 years Juan Sanchez spent as one of Fidel Castro's personal soldiers, in his innermost circle