Family Portrait with Fidel

Fülszöveg

'Outstanding in every way a magnificent,
a terrifying book.' octavio paz
Family Portrait with Fidel is a firsthand account by Carlos
Franqui, the archivist of the Cuban Revolution who, as one
of Castro's early intimates, was director of radio and press
services throughout the Sierra Maestra campaign against
Batista, and later editor of Revolución, the highly influential
vanguard newspaper.
Fiercely independent - an apologist neither for the left nor
for the right - Franqui eloquently presents a dramatic
account of the intrigues of the various factions in the Cuban
government that vied for Castro's attention and endorse-
ment from the outset, and as keen a psychological and
political portrait of Fidel Castro as we are ever likely to get.
He reveals many new facts concerning Cuban domestic
affairs and foreign policy vis-a-vis the United States, the
Soviet Union, Latin America and Africa, including the Bay
of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis.
Master of the telling... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'Outstanding in every way a magnificent,
a terrifying book.' octavio paz
Family Portrait with Fidel is a firsthand account by Carlos
Franqui, the archivist of the Cuban Revolution who, as one
of Castro's early intimates, was director of radio and press
services throughout the Sierra Maestra campaign against
Batista, and later editor of Revolución, the highly influential
vanguard newspaper.
Fiercely independent - an apologist neither for the left nor
for the right - Franqui eloquently presents a dramatic
account of the intrigues of the various factions in the Cuban
government that vied for Castro's attention and endorse-
ment from the outset, and as keen a psychological and
political portrait of Fidel Castro as we are ever likely to get.
He reveals many new facts concerning Cuban domestic
affairs and foreign policy vis-a-vis the United States, the
Soviet Union, Latin America and Africa, including the Bay
of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis.
Master of the telling anecdote, Franqui enlarges our
understanding of leading figures he has known through his
intimate involvement in the Cuban revolution: Che
Guevara, Raul Castro, Khrushchev, Mikoyan, Ben Bella,
Nehru, Picasso, Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
Written in lucid and telling prose, elegantly translated by
Alfred J. MacAdam, Family Portrait with Fidel is perhaps the
most valuable testimony we have to one of the signal events
in the political history of the twentieth century, a book
indispensable to any appreciation of the fate of Latin
America today. Vissza