The Autobiography Of Fidel Castro

Author : Norberto Fuentes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393076733
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Fidel Castro written by Norberto Fuentes and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A compelling fictional personage-by turns arrogant, funny, pompous, lewd, self-absorbed and self-deluding."—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times An audacious “biography” of the ex-president of Cuba told in Castro’s own outrageous, bombastic voice. Prize-winning author and journalist Norberto Fuentes was once a revolutionary: a writer with privileged access to Fidel Castro’s inner circle during some the most challenging years of the revolution. But in the late 1990s, as the regime began sending its oldest comrades to the firing squad, he became A Man Who Knew Too Much. Escaping a death sentence and now living in exile, Fuentes has written a brilliant, satirical, and utterly captivating “autobiography” of the Cuban leader—in Fidel’s own arrogant and seductive language—discussing everything from Castro’s early sexual experiences in Birán to his true feelings about Che Guevara and his philosophy on murder, legacy, and state secrets. Critics have long admired Fuentes’s writing; one U.S. article called him “Norman Mailer’s Cuban pen pal.” Akin to Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, or Edmund Morris’s Dutch, this wickedly entertaining, true-to-life masterpiece is as imaginative and outsized as Castro himself.

Author : Ignacio Ramonet
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416562338
Total Pages : 755 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life written by Ignacio Ramonet and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Juan Reinaldo Sanchez
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250068762
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Double Life of Fidel Castro written by Juan Reinaldo Sanchez and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory memoir of the 17 years Juan Sanchez spent as one of Fidel Castro's personal soldiers, in his innermost circle

Author : Georgie Anne Geyer
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guerrilla Prince written by Georgie Anne Geyer and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geyer reveals the untold story of Fidel Castro, based on hundreds of interviews conducted over many years in 28 countries, including extensive personal interviews with Castro himself. A new preface and an epilogue incorporate all of the changes since the book's original 1991 publication. Photos.

Author : Jonathan M. Hansen
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476732485
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young Castro written by Jonathan M. Hansen and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intimate, revisionist portrait of Fidel Castro, showing how an unlikely young Cuban led his country in revolution and transfixed the world, is “sure to become the standard on Castro’s early life” (Publishers Weekly). Until now, biographers have treated Castro’s life like prosecutors, scouring his past for evidence to convict a person they don’t like or don’t understand. Young Castro challenges us to put aside the caricature of a bearded, cigar-munching, anti-American hothead to discover how Castro became the dictator who acted as a thorn in the side of US presidents for nearly half a century. In this “gripping and edifying narrative…Hansen brings imposing research and notable erudition” (Booklist) to Castro’s early life, showing Castro getting his toughness from a father who survived Spain’s class system and colonial wars to become one of the most successful independent plantation owners in Cuba. We see a boy running around that plantation more comfortable playing with the children of his father’s laborers than his own classmates at elite boarding schools in Santiago de Cuba and Havana. We discover a young man who writes flowery love letters from prison and contemplates the meaning of life, a gregarious soul attentive to the needs of strangers but often indifferent to the needs of his own family. These pages show a liberal democrat who admires FDR’s New Deal policies and is skeptical of communism, but is also hostile to American imperialism. They show an audacious militant who stages a reckless attack on a military barracks but is canny about building an army of resisters. In short, Young Castro reveals a complex man. The first American historian in a generation to gain access to the Castro archives in Havana, Jonathan Hansen was able to secure cooperation from Castro’s family and closest confidants. He gained access to hundreds of never-before-seen letters and interviewed people he was the first to ask for their impressions of the man. The result is a nuanced and penetrating portrait of a man at once brilliant, arrogant, bold, vulnerable, and all too human: a man who, having grown up on an island that felt like a colonial cage, was compelled to lead his country to independence.

Author : Georgie Anne Geyer
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780740720642
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guerrilla Prince written by Georgie Anne Geyer and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syndicated journalist Georgie Anne Geyer calls on her nearly 40 years of experience covering Latin America to create an extraordinary biography that reveals the untold story of Fidel Castro, revolutionary and demagogue. Based on hundreds of interviews and unique sources -- including four extensive personal interviews with Castro -- Guerrilla Prince is an intimate and revealing portrait, charged with all the electricity of the charismatic leader.In this updated edition, Ms. Geyer presents new insights and addresses the changes since the 1991 release of Guerrilla Prince in hardcover -- the collapse of the Soviet Union, the internal unrest, and the growing anticipation of a post-Castro Cuba.

Author : Fidel Castro
Publisher : Ocean Press
ISBN 13 : 9781920888091
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fidel written by Fidel Castro and published by Ocean Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Fidel Castro
Publisher : Ocean Press (AU)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Early Years written by Fidel Castro and published by Ocean Press (AU). This book was released on 1998 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Marita Lorenz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681775786
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marita: The Spy Who Loved Castro written by Marita Lorenz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic, glamorous story of lover-turned-spy Marita Lorenz and her affair with Fidel Castro, soon to be the subject of a major film starring Jennifer Lawrence. Few people can say they’ve seen some of the most significant moments of the twentieth century unravel before their eyes. Marita Lorenz is one of them. Born in Germany at the outbreak of WWII, Marita was incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp as a child. In 1959, she travelled to Cuba where she met and fell in love with Fidel Castro. Yet upon fleeing to America, she was recruited by the CIA to assassinate the Fidel. Torn by love and loyalty, she couldn’t bring herself to slip him the lethal pills. Her life would take many more twists and turns—including having a child with ex-dictator of Venezuela, Marcos Pérez Jiménez; testifying about the John F. Kennedy assassination; and becoming a party girl with close ties the New York mafia (and then a police informant). Caught up in Cold War intrigue, espionage, and conspiracy—this is Marita’s incredible autobiography of a young woman who became a spy for the CIA.

Author : Fidel Castro
Publisher : Pathfinder Press (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nothing Can Stop the Course of History written by Fidel Castro and published by Pathfinder Press (NY). This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes up U.S.-Cuba relations, Cuba's role in the fight against apartheid rule in South Africa, the overthrow of the Grenada revolution, and the social consequences of the foreign debt in Latin America and the Caribbean.