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Fidel Castro, my life : a spoken autobiography / Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet ; translated by Andrew Hurley.

Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016 (Author). Ramonet, Ignacio. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9781416553281
  • Physical Description: v, 723 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First Scribner edition
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published under title: Fidel Castro, biografía a dos voces. Madrid : Random House Mondadori, 2006. Original English translation published: London : Allen Lane, 2007.
Formatted Contents Note:
Map of Cuba vi -- 1 Childhood of a Leader 23 -- 2 Forging of a Rebel 52 -- 3 Entering Politics 83 -- 4 Assault on the Moncada Barracks 104 -- 5 Backdrop of the Revolution 135 -- 6 'History Will Absolve Me' 158 -- 7 Che Guevara 171 -- 8 In the Sierra Maestra 182 -- 9 Lessons from a Guerrilla War 205 -- 10 Revolution: First Steps, First Problems 215 -- 11 Conspiracies Begin 241 -- 12 Bay of Pigs/Playa Giron 257 -- 13 The 'Cuban Missile Crisis' of October 1962 271 -- 14 Death of Che Guevara 292 -- 15 Cuba and Africa 308 -- 16 Emigration Crises 335 -- 17 Collapse of the Soviet Union 354 -- 18 Ochoa Case and the Death Penalty 367 -- 19 Cuba and Neoliberal Globalization 386 -- 20 President Jimmy Carter's Visit 405 -- 21 Arrests of Dissidents in March 2003 432 -- 22 Hijackings in April 2003 460 -- 23 Cuba and Spain 483 -- 24 Fidel and France 506 -- 25 Latin America 520 -- 26 Cuba Today 538 -- 27 Summing up a Life and a Revolution 570 -- 28 After Fidel, What? 595.
Subject: Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016 > Interviews.
Heads of state > Cuba > Biography.
Heads of state > Cuba > Interviews.
Cuba > History > 1959-1990.
Cuba > History > 1990-
Genre: Autobiographies.
Interviews.

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