Fidel castro my life

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The intimate and highly revealing life story of the world's longest-serving, most charismatic, and controversial head of state in modern times.

Fidel Castro was a dictatorial pariah to some and a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor, defiantly charting an independent and revolutionary path for Cuba over nearly half a century. Numerous attempts were made to get Castro to tell his own story. But only in the twilight of his years was he prepared to set out the details of his remarkable biography for the world to read before his death in 2016. This book is nothing less than his living testament.

In these pages, Castro narrates a compelling chronicle that spans the harshness of his elementary school teachers; the early failures of the revolution; his intense comradeship with Che Guevara and their astonishing, against-all-odds victory over the dictator Batista; the Cuban perspective on the Bay of Pigs and the ensuing missile crisis; the active role of Cuba in African independence movements (especially its large military involvement in fighting apartheid South Africa in Angola); his relations with prominent public figures such as Boris Yeltsin, Pope John Paul II, and Saddam Hussein; and his dealings with no less than ten successive American presidents, from Eisenhower to George W. Bush.

Castro talks proudly of increasing life expectancy in Cuba; of the half million students in Cuban universities; and of the training of seventy thousand Cuban doctors nearly half of whom work abroad, assisting the poor in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He confronts a number of thorny issues, including democracy and human rights, discrimination toward homosexuals, and the presence of the death penalty on Cuban statute books. Along the way he shares intimacies about more personal matters: the benevolent strictness of his father, his successful attempt to give up cigars, his love of Ernest Hemingway's novels, and his calculation that by not shaving he saves up to ten working days each year.

Drawing on more than one hundred hours of interviews with Ignacio Ramonet, a knowledgeable and trusted interlocutor, this spoken autobiography will stand as the definitive record of an extraordinary life lived in turbulent times.

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My Life

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For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the cuban revolution to tell his own life story here finally ignacio ramonet has succeeded for the first time in a series of probing interviews castro describes his life from the 1950s all the way up to the present day he discusses his p 1 - 2 weken .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 09 juni 2009

Aantal pagina's: 723

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Ignacio Ramonet

Tweede Auteur: Fidel Castro

Co Auteur: Ignacio Ramonet

Hoofduitgeverij: Simon & Schuster

Eerste Vertaler: Professor Andrew Hurley

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 159 mm

Product hoogte: 44 mm

Product lengte: 229 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 153 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 52 mm

Verpakking lengte: 226 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 1497 g

EAN: 9781416562337

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