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Fidel's Cuba

A Revolution in Pictures

Fidel's Cuba( )
Author: Salas, Osvaldo
Salas, Roberto
Foreword by: Anderson, Jon Lee
Introduction by: Tozian, Gregory
ISBN:978-1-56025-245-0
Publication Date:Dec 1998
Publisher:Atria Books
Imprint:Beyond Words/Atria Books
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $22.95
Book Description:

Fidel's Cuba commemorates the anniversary of the Cuban leader's victory with black-and-white portraits of great power. With an insider's intimacy, Osvaldo and Roberto Salas followed Castro from his clean- shaven days to the Sierra Maestra, where he and Che Guevara prepared to lead insurgents in victory. The infamous Bay of Pigs invasion, the only known meeting of Ernest Hemingway and Fidel, and the daily life of the Cuban people are all chronicled here.

Book Details
Pages:176
Detailed Subjects: History / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba
Biography & Autobiography / Political
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):9 x 11.5 x 0.5 Inches
Book Weight:1.655 Pounds
Author Biography
Salas, Osvaldo (Author)
Jon Lee Anderson (born January 15, 1957) is a biographer, author, international investigative reporter, and staff writer for The New Yorker, reporting from war zone locales such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Uganda, Israel, El Salvador, Ireland, Lebanon, Iran, and throughout the Middle East. Anderson has also written for The New York Times, Harper's, Life, and The Nation. Anderson is renowned for his numerous profiles of political leaders, including Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Augusto Pinochet.

Anderson is also the author of the best-selling and definitive 800 + page biography of the iconic Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. Entitled Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, it was first published in 1997. While researching the book in Bolivia, he discovered the hidden location of Guevara's burial from where his skeletal remains were exhumed in 1997 and returned to Cuba.

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