Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-223).
Contents:
Castro the bold young boy -- Learning to rebel -- The student rebel -- Castro and Chibas -- Castro vs. Batista -- Planning Moncada barracks attack -- Absolved by history -- Imprisoned -- Personal upheaval -- Training an army in Mexico -- Castro and Che -- The Granma landing -- The takedown -- Batista falls -- Changing the government -- Military tribunals -- Religion, race, & revolution -- Castro's social reform -- Castro and women's reform -- Castro meets world -- Castro and Khrushchev -- Trouble in Playa Girón (the bay of pigs) -- Cuban missile crisis -- Castro and Kennedy -- Reaching out to Latin America and beyond -- Castro and the fall of the USSR -- Emigration issues -- Castro in Africa -- Cuban economics -- Castro and Nelson Mandela -- Castro and Chávez -- Mending fences -- Health and consequences -- Stepping down -- Castro's retirement -- The Castros and Obama -- The final farewell -- Cuba and the U.S.: a shaky future -- Excerpts from Castro's speeches. History will absolve me ; To the U.N. General Assembly: the problem of Cuba and its revolutionary policy ; May day celebration: Cuba is a socialist nation.
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