TITLE: |
Fidel Castro / Vicki Cox ; [foreword: on leadership, Arthur M. Schlesinger, jr.] |
AUTHOR: |
Cox, Vicki. |
SERIES: |
Major world leaders |
PUBLISHED: |
Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004. |
DESCRIPTION: |
126 p. : ill. (some col.), 1 col. map ; 25 cm. |
NOTES: |
A biography of the man who has ruled Cuba since 1959, after leading a successful revolution overthrowing Batista's government and establishing a Communist regime in its place. |
NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 116) and index. |
NOTES: |
We have won! -- The curses of Cuba: Spain, sugar, and the United States -- Growing up and going to school -- Finding a cause -- Moncada: the mother of the Revolution -- Revolution grows in the mountains -- The triumphal entry -- Barking with the big dogs -- Intervening in the Third World -- Writing in the history books. |
ELEC. ACCESS: |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip045/2003013671.html
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SUBJECT: |
Castro, Fidel, 1926-. |
SUBJECT: |
Cuba--History--1933-1959. |
SUBJECT: |
Cuba--History--1959-. |
SUBJECT: |
Heads of state--Cuba--Biography. |
SUBJECT: |
Revolutionaries--Cuba--Biography. |
SUBJECT: |
Heads of state. |
SUBJECT: |
Revolutionaries. |
SUBJECT: |
Cuba--History. |
ADDED ENTRY: |
Schlesinger jr., Arthur M. |