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Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography By Ignacio Ramonet, Fidel Castro Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography By Ignacio Ramonet, Fidel Castro Now in paperback, the intimate and highly revealing life story of the world’s longest-serving, most charismatic, and contro- versial head of state in modern times. Numerous attempts have been made to get Fidel Castro to tell his own story. But it was only as he stepped down after five decades in power, that the Cuban leader finally decided to set out the detail of his life for the world to read. In these pages, he presents a compelling chronicle that spans the harshness of his school teachers; the early failures of the revolution; his 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; his dealings wi
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Fidel Castro: A Biography - by Volker Skierka
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. –, Book Reviews Skierka, Volker () Fidel Castro: A Biography, Polity Press (Cambridge), xxiv + pp. £ hbk [Translated from the German by Patrick Camiller]. ‘One thing is certain … Fidel Castro is there to win … he does not have a moment’s peace until he manages to invert the terms and turn it into victory’. Chapter 1 ‘The Heroic Myth’ (p. 1). ‘The man who serves a revolution ploughs a sea …’ Chapter 10 ‘Don Quixote and History’ (pp. –). Volker Skierka opens and closes his biography of Fidel Castro with the words of Gabriel (Gabo) García Marquez. The opening quote, taken from Gabo’s A Personal Portrait of Fidel, is prelude to declaring Castro one of the greatest idealists of our time, perhaps his greatest virtue, though also his greatest danger. It is a statement to which Skierka clearly adheres (referring also to Castro himself having said his favourite literary hero is Don Quixote