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My life / Fidel Castro ; edited by Ignacio Ramonet ; translated by Andrew Hurley.

Title
My life / Fidel Castro ; edited by Ignacio Ramonet ; translated by Andrew Hurley.
Author
Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016
Publication
London : Allen Lane, 2007.

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Additional Authors
Ramonet, Ignacio
Description
723 p.. [32] p. of plates : ill., map; 24 cm.
Summary
Presents a series of interviews by Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of "Le Monde Diplomatique", in which Fidel Castro describes his life. He discusses his parents, his earliest influences, the beginnings of the revolution, his relationship with Che Guevara, the Bay of Pigs, the Carter years, and Cuban migration to the US.
Uniform Title
Fidel Castro, biografía a dos voces. English
Alternative Title
Fidel Castro, biografía a dos voces.
Subject
  • Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016 > Interviews
  • Since 1959
  • Heads of state > Cuba > Biography
  • Heads of state > Cuba > Interviews
  • Cuba > History > 1959-1990
  • Cuba > History > 1990-
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Biographies
  • Interviews
Note
  • Translation of: Fidel Castro: biografía a dos voces. Random House Mondadori, rev. ed. 2006.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Map of Cuba -- Hundred Hours with Fidel -- 1. Childhood of a Leader -- 2. Forging of a Rebel -- 3. Entering Politics -- 4. Assault on the Moncada Barracks -- 5. Backdrop of the Revolution -- 6. 'History Will Absolve Me' -- 7. Che Guevara -- 8. In the Sierra Maestra -- 9. Lessons from a Guerrilla War -- 10. Revolution: First Steps, First Problems -- 11. Conspiracies Begin -- 12. Bay of Pigs/Playa Girón -- 13. 'Cuban Missile Crisis' of October 1962 -- 14. Death of Che Guevara -- 15. Cuba and Africa -- 16. Emigration Crises -- 17. Collapse of the Soviet Union -- 18. Ochoa Case and the Death Penalty -- 19. Cuba and Neoliberal Globalization -- 20. President Jimmy Carter's Visit -- 21. Arrests of Dissidents in March 2003 -- 22. Hijackings in April 2003 -- 23. Cuba and Spain -- 24. Fidel and France -- 25. Latin America -- 26. Cuba Today -- 27. Summing up a Life and a Revolution -- 28. After Fidel, What? -- Note on the Text and the Translation -- Some Key Dates in the Life of Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution (1926-2007).
ISBN
  • 0713999209 (hbk.)
  • 9780713999204 (hbk.)
OCLC
  • 75713535
  • SCSB-11488841
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library