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From the award-winning reporter and go-to source on Cuban-Miami
politics Ann Louise Bardach comes a riveting, eye-opening account
of the last chapter in the life of Fidel Castro: his near death and
marathon finale, his enemies and their fifty-year failed battle to
eliminate him, and the carefully planned succession and early reign
of his brother Raul.
Ann Louise Bardach offers a spellbinding chronicle of the
Havana-Washington political showdown, drawing on nearly two decades
of reporting and countless interviews with everyone from the
"Comandante" himself, his co-ruler and brother Raul, and other
family members, to ordinary Cubans as well as officials and
politicos in Miami, Havana, and Washington. The result is an
unforgettable dual portrait of Fidel and Raul Castro--arguably the
most successful and enduring political brother team in history.
Since 1959, Fidel Castro has been the supreme leader of Cuba,
deftly checkmating his foes, both from within and abroad;
confronting eleven American presidents; and outfoxing dozens of
assassination attempts, vanquished only by collapsing health.
As night descends on Castro's extraordinary fifty-year reign,
Miami, Havana, and Washington are abuzz with anxious questions:
What led to the lightning-bolt purge of key Cuban officials in
March 2009? Who will be Raul's heir? Will the U.S. embargo end?
Bardach offers profound and surprising answers to these questions
as she meticulously chronicles Castro's protracted farewell and
assesses his transformative impact on the world stage and the
complex legacy that will long outlive him. She reports from three
distinct vantage points: In Miami, where more than one million
Cubans have fled, she interviews scores of exiles including
Castro's would-be assassins Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles;
in Washington, DC, she reports on the Obama administration's
struggle to formulate a post-Castro strategy; in Havana she
permeates the bubble around the fiercely private and officially
retired Castro to ascertain the extent of his undisclosed medical
condition.
Bardach delivers a compelling meditation on one of the most
controversial, combative, and charismatic rulers in history.
"Without Fidel" includes never-before-published reporting on
Castro, his family, and his half-century grip on the largest
country in the Caribbean while assessing how his departure will
forever transform politics and policy in the Western
Hemisphere--and the world.
Early in Ann Louise Bardach's Cuban voyage she came across Cartas
de Presidio or The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro. Edited by Luis
Conte Aguero, who was the recipient of most of these letters, they
are cited in every important work from Hugh Thomas' opus Cuba to
Tad Szulc's Fidel biography, and everything in between and since.
These twenty-one letters (nine to Conte Aguero, six to his late
sister and close collaborator, Lidia, one to his wife Mirta, one to
his comrade in combat, Melba Hernandez letters, one to the great
scholar Jorge Manach) are regarded as the single most valuable and
revelatory document regarding Fidel Castro and the Cuban
Revolution. Never before published in English, these letters were
written when Castro was imprisoned for his failed attack on the
Moncada from 1953 to 1955 and reveal a man of spectacular ambition
and steely determination. A man, who despite being incarcerated to
serve a lengthy prison term, never wavers in his confidence that he
will one day rule Cuba.
From America’s number one Cuba reporter, PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we’ve all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century’s wiliest political survivor and his fiefdom, Cuba Confidential is the gripping story of the shattered families and warring personalities that lie at the heart of the forty-three-year standoff between Miami and Havana.
Famous to many Americans for her cover stories and media appearances, Ann Louise Bardach has been covering Cuba for a decade. She’s talked to the crooks, spooks and politicians who have made history, and to their hired assassins and confidants. Based on exclusive interviews with Fidel Castro, his sister Juanita, his former brother-in-law Rafael Díaz-Balart, the family of Elián González, the friends and family of the legendary American fugitive Robert Vesco, the intrepid terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, and the inner circles of Jeb Bush and the late exile leader Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuba Confidential exposes the hardball take-no-prisoners tactics of the Cuban exile leadership, and its manipulation and exploitation by ten American presidents.
Bardach homes in on Fidel Castro and his cronies, taking us closer than we’ve ever been—and on the militant exiles who have devoted their lives, with CIA connivance, to trying to eliminate him. From Calle Ocho to Juan Miguel González’s kitchen table in Cárdenas, from Guantánamo Bay to Union City to Washington, D.C., Ann Louise Bardach serves up an unforgettable portrait of Cuba and its exiles.
From the Hardcover edition.
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