{"product_id":"castros-cuba-cubas-fidel-9781592442799","title":"Castro's Cuba  Cuba's Fidel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Mr. Lockwoods exciting book...holds many surprises for the reader who has seen the Cuban reality up to now only through the distorting prism of propaganda.... During Mr. Lockwoods latest  14-week visit to Cuba in 1965 he had a seven-day marathon conversation with Fidel  the transcription of which  with excellent photographs  constitutes the heart of the book.... A first-rate psychological document  this book is also an historical one in that it contains information necessary to the understanding of several conversional questions  such as the priority given agriculture in the development of the Cuban economy  the dissension between Moscow and Havana  or even the intellectual road by which Castro came to Marxism. Moreover  it provides particulars up to now unknown.\" Claude Julien  The New York Times Book Review \"Lockwood gives us crowds  posters  individual studies  Fidel in every possible mood; the cities  farms  country towns - most of Cuba is in the photographs.... Lockwoods text consists mainly of excerpts from several interviews he got from Fidel in 1965.... In one way or another Fidel touches on all the events of crucial importance from the beginning of the insurrection until 1965  and the interviews thus become an explanation of the revolution that we badly need.\" Jose Yglesias  The New Republic \"The authors questions to Fidel are tough and penetrating and they elicited the same kind of answers.... The lively record deserves and encourages serious study.\" K. G. Jackson  Harpers Magazine \"Given the paucity of scholarly work on contemporary Cuba and the difficulty of visiting the island  the photographs  interview materials  and interpretations of this gifted journalist must go high on the reading list of anyone  professional or lay person  who maintains a serious interest in Cuban affairs and in that most dramatic and important of twentieth-century Latin American leaders  Fidel Castro.\" Richard Fagan  Hispanic American Historical Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647571058741,"sku":"ByrdShop_159244279X","price":28.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781592442799.jpg?v=1781693439","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/castros-cuba-cubas-fidel-9781592442799","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}