"One of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape from Cuba"--Amazon.com.
This loyal bodyguard-turned-Miami exile delivers a lively expose of the state secrets and peccadillos of his former boss and idol: Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Sanchez packs his memoir with fascinating anecdotes, in which Castro's health scares and passion for fishing appear alo…
In The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape from Cuba. Responsible for protecting the …
In The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape from Cuba. Responsible for protecting the …
Hipsters and apparatchiks -- Naming the hurricane -- Socialists in Manhattan -- The cultural apparatus of the empire -- Moons of the revolution -- Negroes with guns -- The league of militant poets -- The skin of socialism.
New York in the 1960s was a hotbed for progressive causes of every stripe, including women's liberation, civil rights, opposition to the Vietnam War - and the Cuban Revolution. 'Fighting over Fidel' brings this turbulent cultural moment to life by telling the story of the New Yo…
New York in the 1960s was a hotbed for progressive causes of every stripe, including women's liberation, civil rights, opposition to the Vietnam War-and the Cuban Revolution. Fighting over Fidel brings this turbulent cultural moment to life by telling the story of the New York i…