Before Fidel : the Cuba I remember / Francisco José Moreno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moreno, Francisco José.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moreno, Francisco José.

College students.

Cuba--Politics and government--1933-1959.

Cuba.

Politics and government.

College students--Cuba--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 198 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.

Summary:

Moreno takes us into the little-known world of privileged, upper-middle-class, white Cubans of the 1930s through the 1950s. His vivid depictions of life in the family and on the streets capture the distinctive rhythms of Cuban society and the dynamics between parents and children, men and women, and people of different races and classes. The heart of the book describes Moreno's political awakening, which culminated during his student years at the University of Havana. Moreno gives a detailed, insider's account of the anti-Batista movement, including the Ortodoxos and the Triple A. He recaptures the idealism and naivet? of the movement, as well as its ultimate ineffectiveness as it fell before the juggernaut of the Castro Revolution. His own disillusionment and wrenching decision to leave Cuba rather than accept a commission in Castro's army poignantly closes the book.

ISBN:

9780292714243

0292714246

9780292714762

0292714769

OCLC:

64288891

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