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.
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Geyer's ambitious and revelatory, if somewhat feverish, biography of Fidel Castro presents the Cuban dictator as a personal and political failure, but as a military genius. Photos.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Geyer, a syndicated journalist long familiar with Latin America and intrigued by Castro, has crafted a major biography of this enigmatic and fascinating figure. Her work differs from Ted Szulc's Fidel: A Critical Portrait ( LJ 1/15/87) in that it focuses on Castro's personality, on his personal rather than policy motivations, and offers a detailed psychological portrait. Geyer used some 900 interviews obtained over many years to document Castro's brutal treatment of thousands of Cubans and his fanatic hatred of the United States. The reader is left with a persuasive picture of a paranoid, erratic megalomaniac, whose personal life is a microcosm of his public behavior. Highly recommended.
- Roderic A. Camp, Central Coll., Pella, Ia.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
- Roderic A. Camp, Central Coll., Pella, Ia.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Georgie Anne Geyer is a veteran foreign correspondent and a syndicated columnist on international affairs. She is renowned for her in-depth interviews with world leaders, including Anwar Sadat, Saddam Hussein, numerous American presidents, and the elusive Fidel Castro, the subject of her controversial book Guerrilla Prince. Her 10 books also include her own fascinating autobiography, Buying the Night Flight.
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As one of the thousands of the Cuban non-political middle class who had to flee Cuba leaving everything behind including family, who not only experienced and suffered Castro's rise to power first hand, and whose family and himself personally knew quite a few of the persons which the book makes reference to; I, would not edit anything in this book. This is an accurate and well researched work as its large number of appendix sources testify. Geyer's only hope for her book has been to open the eyes of those who are still under Castro's spell for pre 60's revolutionary romanticism. Her book details Castro's rise to power accurately including his use of brutality and its resulting human suffering which are inherent to any totalitarian regime.
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This book is a very well written analysis of Castro's regime as well as his personal methods of operation. It does an excellent job of helping to understand what makes him tick. However, it is extremely slanted toward the anti-Castro Miami Cuban community, and virtually ignores the black Cubans. Highly recommended, but take the bias into account, because it is easy not to.
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This is the best written biography of Fidel Castro. It covers almost all of his life focusing mostly on the political and military aspects. If you want to get a sense of society as a whole I would recommend reading Fidel Castro by Quirk but otherwise this is an excellent start to Castro's life. You could read this and feel that you have covered every relevant part of his life and then some. If you want to understand how Cuba was transformed into what it is today this is essential reading. Highly recommend.
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AS THE CENTURY came to a close, and as the kaleidoscope that Fidel Castro had created in his Cuba turned and turned, seeming to reflect the opinions of the world, one could see the "truths" about him still changing too; for often they change color as the lights of history fall at geometrical or seasonal angles. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs, New York, Latin America, Sierra Maestra, Third World, Soviet Union, Angel Castro, Cayo Confites, Che Guevara, José Martí, Eastern Bloc, Father Llorente, José Pardo Llada, Manolo Castro, Missile Crisis, Carlos Prío, Frank País, Rafael Díaz-Balart, Sorí Marín, United Fruit, Nikita Khrushchev, Carlos Franqui, Leonel Gómez New!
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AS THE CENTURY came to a close, and as the kaleidoscope that Fidel Castro had created in his Cuba turned and turned, seeming to reflect the opinions of the world, one could see the "truths" about him still changing too; for often they change color as the lights of history fall at geometrical or seasonal angles. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs, New York, Latin America, Sierra Maestra, Third World, Soviet Union, Angel Castro, Cayo Confites, Che Guevara, José Martí, Eastern Bloc, Father Llorente, José Pardo Llada, Manolo Castro, Missile Crisis, Carlos Prío, Frank País, Rafael Díaz-Balart, Sorí Marín, United Fruit, Nikita Khrushchev, Carlos Franqui, Leonel Gómez New!
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