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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Baseball has been as much of a national pastime to Cuba as it has to the U.S., due in no small part to Fidel Castro's love of the game. This book chronicles the central role Castro played in transforming the sport from professional to amateur status in the small island country, which has produced dozens, if not hundreds, of baseball stars." --
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Perrottet chronicles the events of the Cuban Revolution and the figures at the center of the guerrilla uprising: Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the scrappy band of rebel men and women who followed them. The general timeline of the Cuban Revolution of 1956-1958: It was led by two of the 20th century's most iconic figures, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara; it successfully overthrew the island nation's US-backed dictator; and it quickly went awry under...
28) Fidel Castro
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the man who became dictator of Cuba in 1959 aftera successful revolution against Batista's military dictatorshipand reorganized the country into a Communist state.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Reported from inside Cuba by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Andres Oppenheimer, Castro's Final Hour chronicles the dramatic events that have crippled the more-than-three-decades-old Marxist regime of Fidel Castro. From the execution of the country's most celebrated Army general in 1989 to the devastating effects of the loss of all Soviet aid, the picture Oppenheimer paints is extraordinarily detailed and engrossing, revealing a country on the brink...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roland Merullo has consistently wowed critics with his brilliant storytelling and his refusal to be pigeonholed, hopscotching from the coming-of-age tale (In Revere, In Those Days) to the novel-as-fable (Golfing with God) to the road trip genre (Breakfast with Buddha). Now Merullo delivers a dazzling and finely nuanced political thriller about a clandestine plot to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
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Series
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
He stood defiantly at the center of some of the worst crises of the Cold War. After over forty years of rule, he remains one of the most controversial politcal figures of all time. Join Biography for a revealing look at the last great Communist leader.
38) Fidel Castro
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The Cuban dictator is profiled through interviews with relatives, loyalists, and enemies in Cuba and abroad.