Fidel Castro: A Biography

by Thomas M. Leonard

Book Overview

Fidel Castro has ruled Cuba for over 40 years, yet he remains one of the world's most complex leaders. Rebellious at an early age, he attemped to organize a strike of sugar workers against his father as a teenager. By his early twenties, he made it clear that he was an opponent of the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista and wanted a social change for Cuba. His leadership of the successful revolution in 1959 led him to political power behind the support...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313323011
• ISBN13: 9780313323010
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Why we should be grateful to Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro has been demonized by American politicians for a generation. There are however several things we should thank him for. 1. He supressed the drug trade. If we had the drugs from Cubans in Miami as well as from Cuba we would have been in a pretty pickle. 2. He stopped the AIDS epidemic in Cuba using simple public health. 3. He brought literacy to Cuba, something states like Arkansas and New Jersey have not yet accomplished. 4. He provided universal health care for people and especially children. 5. He launched a program of vaccination for all Cubans. 6. He supressed prostitution and crime, unlike Las Vegas or Cleveland. This biography seeks to explain this mysterious man who has done great good but through irrecondite stuborness has allowed forty years of blockade in the name of soverignty. It is worth reading.