My Life - Hardcover

Castro, Fidel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713999209 ISBN 13: 9780713999204

Publisher: Allen Lane, 2007

Synopsis

For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of Le Monde Diplomatique, has succeeded. For the first time, in a series of probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes his life, from the 1950s all the way up to the present day. He discusses his parents, his earliest influences, the beginnings of the revolution, his relationship with Che Guevara, the Bay of Pigs, the Carter years, Cuban migration to the US. And along the way, Ramonet challenges Castro to discuss his views on a number of controversial questions, from human rights and freedom of the press to the repression of homosexuality and the survival of the death penalty, and he gives his opinion of other leaders, alive and dead, including George Bush and Tony Blair.

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Review:

Gripping, almost cinematic (Guardian)

Irresistible (Financial Times)

Cubaphiles are all the richer for this book ... Castro's prodigious gifts are well displayed: his formidable erudition, steely discipline, epic curiosity and his astute grasp of history (Financial Times)

Whatever happens after Castro has gone, this book will provide an indispensable perspective on his record (Guardian)

Castro's life has been extraordinary and he can tell a good story (Evening Standard)

A fascinating account (, Books of the Year Metro)

Extraordinary (, Books of the Year Observer)

About the Author:

Ignacio Ramonet is a specialist on geopolitics, economics and the history of culture and a professor of communication theory at the University Denis Diderot in Paris. He is the long-time editor of the French magazine, Le Monde Diplomatique, one of the founders of ATTAC international and a key player in organizing the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre. In addition, Ramonet also founded the NGO Media Watch Global. Ramonet also frequently contributes to El Pais and participates in an advisory council to Telesur.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0713999209
• ISBN 13: 9780713999204
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 736
• Editor: Ramonet Ignacio