In this important and evenhanded book, longtime foreign
correspondent and syndicated columnist Geyer (Buying the Night
Flight, 1982, etc.) provides unequalled insight into the decline of
Fidel Castro from national hero to increasingly desperate dictator
of a despairing little country. Much of Geyer's success comes from
her careful investigation of aspects of Castro's life that, in the
tradition of the charismatic leader, he has sought to conceal: his
origins as the son of a landowner with ten thousand acres; his time
at the Univ. of Havana, in which he alternated study of the methods
of Hitler, Mussolini, and Falangist leader Primo de Rivera with
episodes of sheer gangsterism; and his marriage and liaisons and
affairs. Geyer argues persuasively that the West has asked the
wrong questions about Castro: it is less important to know when
Castro became a Communist than how he used the Communist Party to
achieve his overriding ambition: power. With his demonic energy,
his uncanny instinct for the direction of events, his gift for
self-dramatization, and his almost mystical ability to express the
yearnings and passions of the Cuban people, he ultimately attained
it; but, once attained, his brutality, his overmastering egotism,
and his consuming hatred of the US transformed him into a
caricature of the Latin American caudillo, and his country into one
of the poorest in the hemisphere. The scrupulousness, the
experience, and the balance Geyer brings to this portrait will not
easily be improved upon. A notable achievement. (Kirkus Reviews)
With Guerrilla Prince, syndicated journalist Georgie Anne Geyer
calls on her twenty-five years of experience covering Latin America
to create an extraordinary biography that finally reveals the
untold story of Fidel Castro. Based on hundreds of interviews with
unique sources - including four extensive personal interviews with
Castro - Guerrilla Prince is an intimate and revealing portrait,
charged with all the electricity of the charismatic man himself. In
this edition, Geyer adds a preface and an extensive epilogue to her
1991 hardcover text, addressing the changes since that time - the
collapse of the Soviet Union, the internal unrest, and the growing
anticipation of a post-Castro Cuba.
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