Maps on endpapers Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Prologue -- Search for liberty. Agony of the republic ; To tyranny and back ; "Bite, rooster!" -- Fidel. The firebrand ; The guerilla ; "Jury of a million" ; The silencing -- Give me liberty. The secret library ; Defiance ; "Faith and justice" ; The movement ; The Stasi lessons ; Rebellion of the souls ; Rafts of despair ; The Varela project -- The black spring. The black spring ; Under siege -- Epilogue.
Summary:
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David E. Hoffman comes the riveting biography of Oswaldo Paỳ, a dissident who dared to defy Fidel Castro, inspiring thousands of Cubans to fight for democracy.
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