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Lee Lockwood. Castro's Cuba. 1959-1969 (Hardcover)
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Lee Lockwood. Castro's Cuba. 1959-1969 (Hardcover)
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"Holds many surprises for the reader who has seen the Cuban reality
. . . only through the distorting prism of propaganda." -The New
York Times Book Review, 1967 On December 31, 1958, Lee Lockwood,
then a young photojournalist, went to Cuba to cover what looked to
be the end of Batista's regime. He arrived the day before Fidel
Castro took power and spent a week canvassing the island before
finding the victorious leader. Castro immediately took to Lockwood
and over the next decade invited him back many times, granting him
special access to his inner circle and free rein to explore the
island without the usual restrictions imposed upon American
journalists. In 1965, Castro granted Lockwood a rare, in-depth
interview but then missed appointment after appointment. Days
turned into weeks turned into three interminable months, as
Lockwood, like many journalists before and since, waited for
Castro. But it was worth the anticipation, climaxing in a marathon
seven-day interview that covered everything from racial issues in
America to the Cuban Missile Crisis. It remains to this day one of
the most penetrating portraits of the Cuban leader. Originally
published in 1967, Lockwood's interviews and observations are now
republished by TASCHEN alongside hundreds of photographs covering
both the weeks Lockwood spent traveling with Castro and the years
he documented Cuba's transformation throughout the '60s. From
military encampments in the Sierra Maestra mountains to Havana
street life and political rallies, many of these color images have
never been published before. A foreword and afterword by Latin
America expert Saul Landau contextualize Lockwood's work at a
moment in history when U.S.-Cuba relations once again take center
stage.
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