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Without Fidel : a death foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington / Ann Louise Bardach.
LIBRA F1788.22.C3 B37 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bardach, Ann Louise.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016.
- Castro, Fidel.
- United States--Foreign relations--Cuba.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Cuba.
- Cuba--Foreign relations--United States.
- Heads of state--Cuba--Biography.
- Heads of state.
- Cuba--Politics and government--1959-1990.
- Politics and government.
- Cuba--Politics and government--1990-.
- Cuba--History--1959-1990.
- History.
- Cuba--History--1990-.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 328 pages : genealogical tables ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, 2009.
- Summary:
- An eye-opening account of the last chapter in the life of Fidel Castro: his near death, his enemies and their fifty-year failed battle to eliminate him, and the carefully planned succession and early reign of his brother Raul.
- Contents:
- The long dying
- The pursuit of immorality
- The family
- The island and the empire
- Writing for history
- The Fidel obsession
- The pediatrician and the exterminator
- Murder in the sky
- Miami Vice
- Requiem for a would-be assassin
- Raúl's reign
- El Relevo : the relief pitcher
- All the king's men
- Calle Ocho at Foggy Bottom
- The graveyard shift
- Spooks, plotters, politicians & the law.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-314) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781416551508
- 1416551506
- OCLC:
- 440121342
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