卡斯特罗回忆录 Fidel Castro
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作者： Ignacio Ramonet 著
出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House
出版时间： 2008-1-1字数：版次： 1页数： 723印刷时间： 2008/01/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781416553281包装： 精装编辑推荐
作者简介：
IGNACIO RAMONET is editor of Le Monde diplomatique.He is the author of Wars of the 21st Century and Geopolitics of Chaos,the founder of Media Watch Global,and a regular contributor to the Spanish daily El Pais.
内容简介
Fidel Castro is perhaps the most charismatic and controversial head of state in modern times. A dictatorial pariah to some, he has become a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor, defiantly charting an independent and revolutionary path for Cuba over nearly half a century.
Numerous attempts have been made to get Castro to tell his own story. But only now, in the twilight of his years, has he been prepared to set out the details of his remarkable biography for the world to read. This book is nothing less than his living testament. As he told reporters, his desire to finish checking its text was the one thing that kept him going through his recent illness. He presented a copy of the book in its Spanish edition to his compadre President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.
In these pages, Castro narrates a compelling chronicle that spans the harshness of his elementary school teachers; the early failures of the revolution; his intense comradeship with Che Guevara and their astonishing, against-all-odds victory over the dictator Batista; the Cuban perspective on the Bay of Pigs and the ensuing missile crisis; the active role of Cuba in African independence movements (especially its large military involvement in fighting apartheid South Africa in Angola); his relations with prominent public figures such as Boris Yeltsin, Pope John Paul II, and Saddam Hussein; and his dealings with no less than ten successive American presidents, from Eisenhower to George W. Bush.
Castro talks proudly of increasing life expectancy in Cuba (now longer than in the United States); of the half million students in Cuban universities; and of the training of seventy thousand Cuban doctors nearly half of whom work abroad, assisting the poor in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He is confronted with a number of thorny issues, including democracy and human rights, discrimination toward homosexuals, and the continuing presence of the death penalty on Cuban statute books. Along the way he shares intimacies about more personal matters: the benevolent strictness of his father, his successful attempt to give up cigars, his love of Ernest Hemingway's novels, and his calculation that by not shaving he saves up to ten working days each year.
Drawing on more than one hundred hours of interviews with Ignacio Ramonet, a knowledgeable and trusted interlocutor, this spoken autobiography will stand as the definitive record of an extraordinary life lived in turbulent times.
目录
Map of Cuba
A Hundred Hours with Fidel
1 The Childhood of a Leader
2 The Forging of a Rebel
3 Entering Politics
4 The Assault on the Moncada Barracks
5 The Backdrop of the Revolution
6 'History Will Absolve Me'
7 Che Guevara
8 In the Sierra Maestra
9 Lessons from a Guerrilla War
10 Revolution: First Steps, First Problems
11 The Conspiracies Begin
12 The Bay of Pigs/Playa Gir6n
13 The 'Cuban Missile Crisis' of October z96z
14 The Death of Che Guevara
15 Cuba and Africa
16 The Emigration Crises
17 The Collapse of the Soviet Union
18 The Ochoa Case and the Death Penalty
19 Cuba and Neoliberal Globalization
20 President Jimmy Carter's Visit
21 The Arrests of Dissidents in March zoo3
22 The Hijackings in April 2-oo3
23 Cuba and Spain
24 Fidel and France
25 Latin America
26 Cuba Today
27 Summing up a Life and a Revolution
28 After Fidel, What?
A Note on the Text and the Translation
Some Key Dates in the Life of Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution (1926-2007)
Notes
Index
