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El Hombre que Inventó a Fidel. Cuba, Castro y el New York Times (Spanish Edition)
 
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El Hombre que Inventó a Fidel. Cuba, Castro y el New York Times (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Anthony DePalma (Author)

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March 1, 2007
Anthony DePalma, escribe una fascinante y bien documentada biografía de Herbert L. Matthews, el destacado periodista del New York Times que además de haber sido el autor de una histórica entrevista a Fidel Castro en 1957, fue corresponsal de guerra en la invasión de Abisinia por la Italia fascista y durante la guerra civil española. "Una vida tras las huellas de la verdad le había enseñado a Herbert Matthews que ninguna mentira es más poderosa que los mitos, y que ninguna verdad es más frágil que aquella que nadie quiere oír. Estaba convencido de que un mito había arruinado prácticamente sus cuarenta y cinco años de carrera como editorialista, reportero, y corresponsal; uno de los corresponsales extranjeros más influyentes y controvertidos del siglo XX. Culpaba a las verdades desagradables al oído por convertir su vida en un infierno. Matthews se había internado en las impenetrables montañas cubanas, de las que había emergido con una exclusiva sensacional para la portada de The New York Times: Fidel Castro, a quien se creía muerto hacía ya meses, se encontraba vivo y saludable, y había sido elegido para conducir la revolución en Cuba. Su firma, arrancada de las notas de Matthews, aparecía bajo una fotografía en la que se veía a Castro saliendo de los bosques con un rifle de mira telescópica y un rostro exento de malicia. La entrevista, llevada a cabo en el escondite de Castro en la Sierra, marcó un momento decisivo en la historia de Cuba y, pasando el tiempo, también en la de los Estados Unidos, puesto que señaló el primer escalón en el ascenso de Castro al poder. Por un tiempo, al menos, convirtió a Matthews y a Castro en figuras heroicas." La red de relaciones entre Castro, Matthews y el New York Times descritas con gran detalle por DePalma sirve de marco para apreciar los conflictos que enfrentan de manera cotidiana los medios de comunicación, en particular los que surgen de la confusión entre información objetiva y opinión partidista. Anthony DePalma es un destacado periodista del New York Times donde escribe regularmente desde hace mas de 20 años. Fue corresponsal y Jefe de la redacción en México y Canadá y ha cubierto eventos importantes en todo el hemisferio, incluyendo Cuba. También es autor del libro Here: A Biography of the New American Continent (PublicAffairs, 2001). DePalma vive en Montclair, NJ, con su esposa Miriam y sus tres hijos.

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ANTHONY DEPALMA



Anthony DePalma was the first foreign correspondent of The New York Times to serve as bureau chief in both Mexico and Canada. Starting in 1993, he covered some of the most tumultuous events in modern Mexican history, including the Zapatista uprising, the assassination of the ruling party's presidential candidate and the peso crisis that quickly spread economic chaos to markets all over the world. In 1996 he was transferred to the other end of America.

In Canada he reported from all ten provinces and three territories, covering natural disasters like the Quebec ice storm and the Red River flood--both once in a century occurrences--the 1997 federal elections that revealed deep regional divisions in Canada, and the historic Indian treaties in British Columbia. In addition, he wrote extensively about the creation of the territory of Nunavut, in which Inuit people formed their own government.

Besides North America, Mr. DePalma has reported from Cuba, Guatemala, Suriname, Guyana, and, during the Kosovo crisis, Montenegro and Albania. His book "Here: A Biography of the New American Continent," was published in the United States and Canada in 2001. An updated version, with a post 9/11 afterword, was published in 2002.

From 2000 to 2002, Mr. DePalma was an international business correspondent for The Times covering North and South America. During his tenure with The Times, he also has held positions in the Metropolitan and National sections of the newspaper. Most recently he wrote about the working class and the environment in New York City. In 2003, he was awarded a fellowship at Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute for International Studies, where he began work on "The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times," which was published in 2006. It has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.

Mr. DePalma has taught graduate seminars at New York University and is an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. In 2007 he was named a Hoover Media Fellow at Stanford University, and he delivered the annual Jane E. Ruby Lecture at Wheaton College. He was a finalist for a 2007 Emmy for his work on the television documentary "Toxic Legacy."

In September, 2008, Mr. DePalma was named writer-in-residence at Seton Hall University, where he teaches journalism and Latin American issues. In 2009 he delivered the Donald B. Regan Lecture on North America at St. Thomas University in Minneapolis, and later that same year he received the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for distinguished international journalism from Columbia University. He continues to contribute to The New York Times and is a frequent lecturer on the Americas. His latest book, "City of Dust," about the health and environmental aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center, was published in September 2010. The Chicago Sun-Times named it one of the best non-fiction books of the year.





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