Format:
Online-Ressource (419 p)
ISBN:
9780813537016
Content:
Second only to Fidel Castro, Fulgencio Batista is the most controversial leader in modern Cuban history. And yet, until now, there has been no objective biography written about him. In this book, the first of two volumes, Frank Argote-Freyre provides a full and balanced portrait of this historically shadowed figure. Drawing on an extensive review of Cuban newspapers, government records, memos, oral history interviews, and a selection of Batista's personal documents, Argote-Freyre moves beyond simplistic caricatures to uncover the real man-one with strengths and weaknesses and with a career mar
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: End and Beginning; Chapter 2: Restless Adolescence; Chapter 3: Sergeant Stenographer; Chapter 4: Machadato; Chapter 5: Sergeants' Revolt; Chapter 6: Revolution of 1933; Chapter 7: An End to Revolution; Chapter 8: The Mendieta Years; Chapter 9: Labor Unrest; Chapter 10: The Elections of 1936; Chapter 11: In the Shadow of Batista; Chapter 12: Cuban Strongman; Chapter 13: Road to Democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author; Gallery of Illustrations
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813541006
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813537016
Additional Edition:
Print version Fulgencio Batista : The Making of a Dictator
Language:
English
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