Guerrilla Prince: Castro(游击战王子：卡斯特罗）|报价￥59.50|图书,进口原版,Biographies & Memoirs 传记,Historical 历史,
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基本信息
·出版社：Andrews McMeel Publishing
·页码：496 页码
·出版日：2002年
·ISBN：0740720643
·条码：9780740720642
·版次：3
·装帧：平装
·开本：20开 20开
内容简介
本书为您呈现古巴人民的英雄，游击战王子，菲德尔·卡斯特罗·鲁斯的惊险人生！
Book Description
Syndicated journalist Georgie Anne Geyer calls on her nearly 40 years of experience covering Latin America to create an extraordinary biography that reveals the untold story of Fidel Castro, revolutionary and demagogue. Based on hundreds of interview and unique sources - including four extensive personal interviews with Castro - Guerrilla Prince is an intimate and revealing portrait, charged with all the electricity of the charismatic leader. In this updated edition, Ms. Geyer presents new insights and addresses the changes since the 1991 release of Guerrilla Prince in hardcover - the collapse of the Soviet Union, the internal unrest, and the growing anticipation of a post-Castro Cuba.
FromPublishers Weekly
Geyer's ambitious and revelatory, if somewhat feverish, biography of Fidel Castro presents the Cuban dictator as a personal and political failure, but as a military genius. Photos.
FromLibrary Journal
Geyer, a syndicated journalist long familiar with Latin America and intrigued by Castro, has crafted a major biography of this enigmatic and fascinating figure. Her work differs from Ted Szulc's Fidel: A Critical Portrait ( LJ 1/15/87) in that it focuses on Castro's personality, on his personal rather than policy motivations, and offers a detailed psychological portrait. Geyer used some 900 interviews obtained over many years to document Castro's brutal treatment of thousands of Cubans and his fanatic hatred of the United States. The reader is left with a persuasive picture of a paranoid, erratic megalomaniac, whose personal life is a microcosm of his public behavior. Highly recommended.
- Roderic A. Camp, Central Coll., Pella, Ia.
Book Dimension
length: (cm)23.1 width:(cm)15.5
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Spot Reviews
1. An Engaging Portrait of a Man-Made Monster,July 6, 2000
By Jeffrey A. Veyera "Jeff Veyera" (Matthews, NC United States)
Now that we've made the world safe for Communism by returning Elian to the tender mercies of the Madman of Havana, perhaps its high time we took a look at exactly what sort of man rules Cuba.
Thankfully, Georgie Anne Geyer has done all the research for us, and presented the definitive portrait of the Latin lunatic lovingly referred to by NBC News as "Fidel".
And what a portrait it is. Geyer makes clear that Castro is a power-mad dictator first, and a Communist second. From his earliest days as a Cuban street thug to his corpulent posturing of today, the only loyalty to man or cause Fidel Castro has shown is to himself.
This was evident in his brutal treatment of his wife, ironically the daughter of a pro-American businessman and quite well off. If you're of the Marxism Forever crowd, prepare to tear those Che Guevara posters of the wall of your parents' home when you read about how Castro betrayed his righthand man as he strove to consolidate his power in Havana. And lets not forget the millions of dead and incarcerated political enemies who will shake their bloody fists at Fidel when he gets to his final reward....
Perhaps most interesting of all, Geyer uncovers an illuminating incident from 1956 in which Castro waged a vicious custody battle over his son Fidelito. As his ex-wife was preparing to remarry, Castro sent for his son. His wife asked him for his word of honor that he would be returned to her within two weeks. He agreed. After five weeks, he finally told his ex-wife that his son would not be raised by thugs. He then renamed him and gave him to two of his Mexican patrons to raise. With the help of Mexican police, his son was eventually returned (temporarily) to his mother. In the end, of course, Castro stripped his ex-wife of her child when he came to power and raised Fidelito as a model Communist.
This story has some rather obvious bearing on the Elian affair, yet was of no interest to the American media.
I bet that it and the rest of this excellent biography will be of interest to you. Pick it up now, and learn the full story of one of the most evil and charismatic men of the 20th century.
Very well written and argued,December 29, 2006
By Lehigh History Student
This is the best written biography of Fidel Castro. It covers almost all of his life focusing mostly on the political and military aspects. If you want to get a sense of society as a whole I would recommend reading Fidel Castro by Quirk but otherwise this is an excellent start to Castro's life. You could read this and feel that you have covered every relevant part of his life and then some. If you want to understand how Cuba was transformed into what it is today this is essential reading. Highly recommend.
Customer Reviews
1.From the Camouflaged Prince into the Castelan Communist : Fidel Castro,June 1, 2007
By Magickal Merlin "Wizard" (Death Valley-SoCal)
According to Lenin's blueprint for the 'dictatorship of the proletariat',the state needs a constant one-party system of communists.Eventhough Lenin supported the scientific writings of Charles Darwin,Lenin believed that the people's will could be controlled and restricted by the state.History has proved him wrong.The loss of Fidel Castro would be the end of the Cuban-Leninist-Communist state.Fidel is a 'Leninist',and his brother Raul is a 'Stalinist'.Fidel was the fiery spark that kept the peasant's hopes alive.The 1959 revolution was an idealistic experiment in communist governing that quickly soured into stagnation and repression.Cuba has a very high literacy rate and advanced health-care for its Latin American people.Yet,the diesel fumes sicken the people,day in and day out.Sugar is a food-staple of poor people and still declining in global use.It does not seem appearant that Raul Castro will relinquish his authority,once he is crowned,'jefe supremo del pais por la gente'.His potentially stalinistic policies will be just as fettering and perhaps even worse than his older brother's edicts.-A soviet designed nuclear reactor will soon be operational,near Havana.The fate of this Chernobyl time-bomb is worrisome.And as with North Korea's quasi-communist leader,Kim Il Sun,the reigns of power are within the family.If socialist China continues its economic global ties,would Cuba secure Arabian oil via China?And cheap oil from Hugo Chavez?-Abdication of their rule would be the complete end of their influence and politically suicidal.So, who knows?Maybe a bearded Raul will try to board a Swiss jet and learn to ski the Alps?Hugo Chavez claims he is the communist of the campo,yet he is rhetorically quasi-Catholic and therefore European christian influenced.-This book is simply the best at showing the mental workings of Fidel Castro and why he took the role of 'Guerrilla Prince'.History is what happens when national leaders are busy making other plans.Learn about Castro's personal decisions in this book.I can only recommend reading this for understanding the charismatic personality of the world's oldest living ruler ,Fidel Castro.
2. A real challenge for leftists,June 17, 2005
By Geoff Puterbaugh (Chiang Mai, T. Suthep, A. Muang Thailand)
In one corner, an American "bourgeois" woman named Georgie Anne Geyer. In the opposite corner, Fidel Castro. The opening bell rings! :-0
If I understand the "leftist" mindset at all well, there is no decision to be made here. Castro is right, and Geyer is wrong, and that ends that.
But -- unfortunately for that mindset -- Georgie Ann Geyer worked really hard in compiling her book, and conducted interviews with hundreds of people, and she knows an awful lot more about Fidel Castro than he knows about her. She knows that Castro was a killer, even in his university days. She knows that he was an absolutely ruthless seeker-of-power, like some others we have known (Lenin, Hitler, Mussolini...)
And, in his quest for absolute power, Castro was helped by another thing, not much discussed here. This was the idea that the current system is so corrupt, that anything else would be an improvement. We citizens of the planet Earth need to be very wary of ideas like this. For example, in Iran: the idea that the Shah had to go, that anything else would be an improvement. BZZT! WRONG! Thirty years of terrorist mullahs certainly put a big damper on that idea!
In the same way, the Cubans of long ago partied and had good times and never really dreamed that anyone could be worse than Batista. Of course, sooner or later, they woke up to the fact that they were being ruled by a thug who would never relinquish power, and who would creep into his senility crowned by Forbes magazine as one of the richest men in the world. Oh, that hero of the people, that secretive billionaire Fidel Castro! How could anyone fail to kiss his beard, and declare him the savior of mankind?
Geyer does not have the whole story here: she cannot (given the date of publication) quite cover all of the damage done to Cuba. But in the time of that evil "fascist" Batista, Cuba was an economic marvel: its workers were ranked #8 in the world in terms of wages received, among many other things. Nowadays, Cuba battles it out with Burma for the honors of "most godforsaken country."
And to think: it is still a "fashion item" to wear images of Che Guevara, whose main ability was shooting prisoners -- in prison. Thousands of them! Fidel's Grand Executioner, and we strut around wearing his image, for what reason?
The best biography of this [expletive deleted]. I really hope that Cuba will come back to the real world, and soon!
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