Give me liberty : the true story of Oswaldo Payá and his daring quest for a free Cuba / David E. Hoffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffman, David E. (David Emanuel), author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political activists--Cuba--Biography.

Political activists.

Politics and government.

Payá, Oswaldo, 1952-2012.

Payá, Oswaldo.

Cuba--Politics and government--1959-1990.

Cuba.

Cuba--Politics and government--1990-.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 519 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2022.

Summary:

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David E. Hoffman comes the riveting biography of Oswaldo Payá, a dissident who dared to defy Fidel Castro, inspiring thousands of Cubans to fight for democracy.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I SEARCH FOR LIBERTY

1. Agony of the Republic

2. To Tyranny and Back

3. "Bite, Rooster!"

pt. II FIDEL

4. The Firebrand

5. The Guerrilla

6. "Jury of a Million"

7. The Silencing

pt. III GIVE ME LIBERTY

8. The Secret Library

9. Defiance

10. "Faith and Justice"

11. The Movement

12. The Stasi Lessons

13. Rebellion of the Souls

14. Rafts of Despair

15. The Varela Project

pt. IV THE BLACK SPRING

16. The Black Spring

17. Under Siege.

Notes:

Map on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-503) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781982191191

1982191198

OCLC:

1330435593

Publisher Number:

99991442436