Fidel CastroIn this masterly biography, the prize-winning historian Robert E. Quirk paints a portrait of the charismatic leader who for more than three decades--and over eight American presidencies--managed to sustain a communist regime in the western hemisphere. Fidel Castro emerges as an ambitious rebel, from his earliest years into his student years and adulthood. |
Contents
The Making of a Revolutionary | 3 |
History Will Absolve Me | 31 |
In Durance Vile | 60 |
A Stranger in a Strange Land | 87 |
The Sierra Maestra | 119 |
The General Strike | 149 |
The Rebel Victory | 177 |
Rebels in Power | 210 |
A Little Heresy | 545 |
Death in a Small Hut | 567 |
The BrezhnevCastro Doctrine | 586 |
Outside the Game | 604 |
The F1 Hybrid | 618 |
Ten Million Tons | 630 |
Poets and Prisoners | 651 |
March of the Empty Pots | 681 |
The Maximum Leader | 244 |
Foreign Visitors | 280 |
Cuba Yes Yankees No | 310 |
The Bay of Pigs | 344 |
A Conversion | 380 |
The Smell of Burning | 413 |
In the Land of the Giants | 449 |
The Informer | 484 |
The New Man | 517 |