Soaring With Fidel

Author : David Gessner
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780807085790

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Soaring with Fidel by David Gessner Pdf

A Book Sense Notable Title "As Gessner pursues [the ospreys] down the Eastern Seaboard and even into Cuba with a BBC documentary team at his heels, a lively tale of fish-eating raptors, broken embargoes and a nail-biting race to the finish line ensues . . . Gessner finds his Mecca not in the thrilling launch or triumphant end of his own 7,000-mile migration, but in the living done in between."—Jennifer Winger, Nature Conservancy Magazine "An engaging, lyrical guide to osprey migration, Cuba, and a common humanity."—Orion Magazine "Gessner's finest book, unpredictable in the best way, and funny, too; an adventure book and much more—a book of contact by a writer who quickly becomes an audible and visible presence."—Clyde Edgerton, author of Solo "An interesting and complex book . . . In a surprisingly short amount of time, David Gessner has evolved into one of our most accomplished and singular writers about nature. While many authors treat their experiences in nature with a hushed earnestness and a suspect neatness, Gessner writes about the messy humanness of being outside."—Mark Lynch, Bird Observer "An ideal traveling companion and guide. Soaring with Fidel lets you hover for a while in the thermals of fine language, seeing the same old world from a fresh and invigorating altitude."—Ben Steelman, Wilmington (NC) Star-News

Author : Brian Latell
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466885912

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After Fidel by Brian Latell Pdf

This is a compelling behind-the-scenes account of the extraordinary Castro brothers and the dynastic succession of Fidel's younger brother Raul. Brian Latell, the CIA analyst who has followed Castro since the sixties, gives an unprecedented view into Fidel and Raul's remarkable relationship, revealing how they have collaborated in policy making, divided responsibilities, and resolved disagreements for more than forty years--a challenge to the notion that Fidel always acts alone. Latell has had more access to the brothers than anyone else in this country, and his briefs to the CIA informed much of U.S. policy. Based on his knowledge of Raul Castro, Latell makes projections on what kind of leader Raul will be and how the shift in power might influence U.S.-Cuban relations.

Author : Simon Reid-Henry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802779571

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Fidel and Che by Simon Reid-Henry Pdf

Che Guevara has been dead for more than forty years, and long ago renounced by Fidel Castro-and yet they are forever linked: their coming to prominence together captivated a generation. For many, their romantic struggle for freedom still resonates; for others, they simply represent the last of a dying breed of rebel warriors. Yet, while much has been written about them both, surprisingly little is known about their personalities, and even less about the 12 years of their unique and highly consequential relationship, during which they linked arms in one of the world's greatest revolutionary movements. Fidel and Che follows them on their dramatic journey from the safe houses of Mexico's political underground in the 1950s, where they began hatching their plan for revolution, to the theatre of war in the Cuban mountains, to the paneled offices of a new government (the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile crises happened on their watch), and to the eventual rupture of their friendship, as Che left Cuba to pursue his revolutionary dreams, only to be assassinated by the CIA in 1966. Reid-Henry also reveals the more personal world of their inner lives as friends, husbands, lovers, fathers. What began as an association of convenience became the most profound relationship of their lives. It shaped their political ambitions and their personal attitudes, compelling them further than either had previously dared imagine. But if their times inspired a revolutionary friendship, they also destroyed it, for the tragic irony was that the more historical circumstance bound them together, the more personal ambitions pulled them apart. At a momentous turning point in Cuban history, Simon Reid-Henry has crafted a fascinating and original chronicle of two of the most powerful personalities in recent memory.

Author : Alex Moore
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631581915

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Fidel Castro by Alex Moore Pdf

FIDEL CASTRO August 13, 1926 – November 26, 2016. “A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.” --Fidel Castro From revolutionary and symbol of strength to Cold War adversary, Fidel Castro was one of the world’s most controversial leaders, and perhaps its most enduring. As Cuba’s towering and charismatic president for nearly fifty years, Castro’s influential leadership captivated allies and enemies alike. By virtue of passionate oration and committed sense of purpose—good or bad—Castro kept the Cuban people devoted and the world enthralled. From his earliest years as a student rebel to his role in Cuba's social reform to The Cuban Missile Crisis, his life is covered in extensive detail within this book. The transfer of power to Raul Castro is explored as well as the changes to Cuban/American diplomatic relations, including Obama’s view of America’s relationship with Cuba. Castro’s death is covered as well as the world’s the reaction to it, including the views of American and Cuban people and the differing reactions of Obama and Trump. A comprehensive look into each stage of Castro’s life and leadership More than a dozen color photos spanning the Cuban leader’s life Comes complete with Castro’s most resonating speeches Fidel Castro: In His Own Words is not only a reflection of Castro’s life, triumphs, and misdeeds, but it is a look at the people and places affected by his politics before, during, and after the age of Cuban embargo. Regardless of readers’ political preference, there is no doubt that this captivating leader’s influence on the Cuban people, The United States, and the world will continue to echo through time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Bird watching
ISBN : CORNELL:31924101556482

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Birding by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Schweid
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807888629

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Che's Chevrolet, Fidel's Oldsmobile by Richard Schweid Pdf

Vintage U.S.-made cars on the streets of Havana provide a common representation of Cuba. Journalist Richard Schweid, who traveled throughout the island to research the story of motor vehicles in Cuba today and yesterday, gets behind the wheel and behind the stereotype in this colorful chronicle of cars, buses, and trucks. In his captivating, sometimes gritty, voice, Schweid blends previously untapped historical sources with his personal experiences, spinning a car-centered history of life on the island over the past century. Packard, Studebaker, Edsel, De Soto: cars long extinct in the United States can be seen at work every day on Cuba's streets. Havana and Santiago de Cuba today are home to some 60,000 North American cars, all dating back to at least 1959, the year the Cuban Revolution prevailed. Though hardly a new part has arrived in Cuba since 1960, the cars are still on the road, held together with mechanical ingenuity and willpower. Visiting car mechanics, tracking down records in dusty archives, and talking with car-crazy Cubans of all types, Schweid juxtaposes historic moments (Fidel Castro riding to the Bay of Pigs in an Oldsmobile) with the quotidian (a weary mother's two-cent bus ride home after a long day) and composes a rich, engaging picture of the Cuban people and their history. The narrative is complemented by fifty-two historic black-and-white photographs and eight color photographs by contemporary Cuban photographer Adalberto Roque.

Author : Esther Selsdon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Cuba
ISBN : OCLC:1280805889

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The Life & Times of Fidel Castro by Esther Selsdon Pdf

Author : Maurice Halperin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520021827

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The Rise and Decline of Fidel Castro by Maurice Halperin Pdf

Author : Alma Guillermoprieto
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307426673

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Looking for History by Alma Guillermoprieto Pdf

From the esteemed New Yorker correspondent comes an incisive volume of essays and reportage that vividly illuminates Latin America’s recent history. Only Alma Guillermoprieto, the most highly regarded writer on the region, could unravel the complex threads of Colombia’s cocaine wars or assess the combination of despotism, charm, and political jiu-jitsu that has kept Fidel Castro in power for more than 40 years. And no one else can write with such acumen and sympathy about statesmen and campesinos, leftist revolutionaries and right-wing militias, and political figures from Evita Peron to Mexico’s irrepressible president, Vicente Fox. Whether she is following the historic papal visit to Havana or staying awake for a pre-dawn interview with an insomniac Subcomandante Marcos, Guillermoprieto displays both the passion and knowledge of an insider and the perspective of a seasoned analyst. Looking for History is journalism in the finest traditions of Joan Didion, V. S. Naipaul, and Ryszard Kapucinski: observant, empathetic, and beautifully written.

Author : Robert E. Quirk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:60297605

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Fidel Castro by Robert E. Quirk Pdf

Author : Mike Bove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Air pilots
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018424260

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Flight 13: Thirteen Years with Castro by Mike Bove Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Abbott
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781590208762

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Mistresses by Elizabeth Abbott Pdf

“A lively and nuanced look at gender roles as they have been revealed by the lives of concubines and mistresses over the centuries” (Kirkus). She exists as both a fictional character and as a flesh-and-blood human being. But who is she, really? Why do women become mistresses, and what is it like to have a private life that is usually also a secret life? Is a mistress merely a wife-in-waiting, or is she the very definition of the emancipated, independent female? Elizabeth Abbott intelligently examines the motives and morals of some of history's most infamous and fascinating women, from antiquity to today. Drawing intimate portraits of those who have—by chance, coercion, or choice—assumed this complex role, Mistresses offers a rich blend of personal biography and cultural insight. “Ms. Abbott is delightfully indiscreet, with an eye for a good story and a colloquial style . . . She has done the ladies a service by bringing them out of the shadows.” —The Economist

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Nature conservation
ISBN : UOM:39015072700811

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The Nature Conservancy Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frank Mankiewicz,Kirby Jones,Fidel Castro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015000117047

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With Fidel by Frank Mankiewicz,Kirby Jones,Fidel Castro Pdf

Author : Fidel Castro,Ignacio Ramonet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cuba
ISBN : 9592740747

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In Conversation with Fidel by Fidel Castro,Ignacio Ramonet Pdf