Fidel Castro Reader

Download or read book Fidel Castro Reader written by Fidel Castro and published by Ocean Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Cuban Revolution Reader written by Julio García Luis and published by Ocean Press (AU). This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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 Features an introduction by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and includes previously unpublished personal reflections by the Cuban President.

Download or read book Inside the Cuban Revolution written by Julia Sweig and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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.

Download or read book The Cuba Reader written by Aviva Chomsky and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Face to Face with Fidel Castro written by Fidel Castro and published by Ocean Press (AU). This book was released on 1993 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.