{"product_id":"fidel-castro-reader-isbn-9781644213926","title":"Fidel Castro Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive anthology with more than 30 speeches that span five decades by Fidel Castro, one of history’s greatest orators.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmerging in the 1960s as a leading voice in support of anticolonial struggles, then continuing to play a role in the antiglobalization movement in the subsequent decades, Fidel Castro was an articulate and penetrating—if controversial—political thinker and leader, who outlasted ten US presidents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCovering five decades of Fidel’s speeches, this selection begins with his famous courtroom defense (“History will Absolve Me”), and also includes his speech on learning of Che Guevara’s death in Bolivia, his analysis of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and his response to the 9\/11 terrorist attacks. With his declining health and the emergence of new leaders such as Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Evo Morales in Bolivia, this book sheds light not just on Castro’s mighty role in Latin America’s past, but also on his legacy for the future. Love him or hate him, this anthology demonstrates that Fidel Castro is a “master of the spoken word,” as Gabriel García Márquez has described him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eFidel Castro Reader\u003c\/i\u003e includes a chronology of the Cuban Revolution, an extensive glossary and index as well as 24 pages of photos.Fidel Castro Biographical Note\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003eForeword: Tributes to Fidel by President Raúl Castro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. History Will Absolve Me\u003cbr\u003eSantiago de Cuba, October 16, 1953\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. On the Triumph of the Revolution\u003cbr\u003eCéspedes Park, Santiago de Cuba, January 2, 1959\u003cbr\u003eCamp Columbia, Havana, January 8, 1959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. At the United Nations General Assembly\u003cbr\u003eNew York, September 26, 1960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. The Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Proclamation of the\u003cbr\u003eSocialist Character of the Revolution\u003cbr\u003eColón Cemetery, Havana, April 16, 1961\u003cbr\u003eMay Day, Havana, May 1, 1961\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Words to Intellectuals\u003cbr\u003eHavana, June 30, 1961\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Manifesto for the Liberation of the Americas:\u003cbr\u003e“The Second Declaration of Havana”\u003cbr\u003eHavana, February 4, 1962\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. The October Missile Crisis\u003cbr\u003eThe Five Points of Dignity, October 28, 1962\u003cbr\u003eOn the Missile Crisis, November 1, 1962\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. Formation of the Cuban Communist Party and Che’s Farewell Letter\u003cbr\u003eChaplin Theater, Havana, October 3, 1965\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. On the Latin American Revolution\u003cbr\u003eHavana, August 10, 1967\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. The Death of Che Guevara\u003cbr\u003eRevolution Plaza, Havana, October 18, 1967\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11. One Hundred Years of Struggle for Cuban Independence\u003cbr\u003eLa Demajagua Monument, Manzanillo, October 10, 1968\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12. Revolution and Counterrevolution in Allende’s Chile\u003cbr\u003eNational Stadium, Santiago de Chile, December 2, 1971\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13. On behalf of the Movement of Nonaligned Countries\u003cbr\u003eUN General Assembly, New York, October 12, 1979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14. Rectifying the Errors of the Cuban Revolution\u003cbr\u003eKarl Marx Theater, Havana, April 19, 1986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e15. Cuban Internationalism and the Collapse of the Socialist Bloc\u003cbr\u003eHavana, December 7, 1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e16. Return of Che Guevara’s Remains to Cuba\u003cbr\u003eSanta Clara, Cuba, October 17, 1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e17. Inauguration of President Chávez in Venezuela: “The Battle of Ideas”\u003cbr\u003eUniversity of Venezuela, Caracas, February 3, 1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e18. Response to the US Declaration of the “War Against Terrorism”\u003cbr\u003eHavana, September 22, 2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e19. Assessing Half a Century of the Cuban Revolution\u003cbr\u003eRevolution Plaza, Havana, May 1, 2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e20. In Answer to the Empire: Letters to President George W. Bush\u003cbr\u003eProclamation by an Adversary of the US Government, May 14, 2004\u003cbr\u003eSecond Epistle, June 21, 2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Fidel Castro on the Cuban Revolution After Fidel\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003eFurther readingFidel Castro Ruz was born in Birán, in the former province of Oriente, on August 13, 1926. Born into a well-off landowning family, he received his primary education in a rural school, later attended private Jesuit schools in Santiago de Cuba and Havana, and graduated from law school at the University of Havana.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile at university, he joined a student group against political corruption. He was a member of the Cuban People’s Party (also known as the Orthodox Party) in 1947 and became a leader of its left wing. That same year, he volunteered for an armed expedition against the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic (the expeditionaries were unable to leave Cuba to\u003cbr\u003ecarry out their plans). As a student leader, Fidel Castro was in Colombia to help organize a Latin American anti-imperialist student congress and participated in the April 1948 popular uprising in Bogotá.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter Fulgencio Batista’s coup d’état of March 10, 1952, Fidel Castro began to organize a revolutionary organization to initiate armed insurrection against the US-backed Batista dictatorship. He organized and led an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada army garrison in Santiago de Cuba on July 26, 1953, for which he and over two dozen others were captured, tried, found guilty, and imprisoned; more than 60 revolutionaries were murdered by Batista’s army during and immediately after the Moncada attack. While in prison, Fidel Castro edited his defense speech from the trial into the pamphlet “History Will Absolve Me,” which was distributed in tens of thousands of copies and became the program of what was to become the July 26 Movement. Originally sentenced to 15 years, he and his comrades were released from prison 22 months later, in May 1955, as a result of a growing public campaign.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn July 7, 1955, Fidel Castro left for Mexico, where he began to organize a guerrilla expedition to Cuba to launch the armed insurrection. On December 2, 1956, along with 81 other fighters, including his brother Raúl, Che Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos, Juan Almeida and Jesús Montané, Fidel reached the Cuban coast aboard the cabin cruiser Granma. For the next two\u003cbr\u003eyears, Fidel Castro directed the operations of the Rebel Army, in addition to continuing as central leader of the July 26 Movement. After an initial setback, the guerrillas were able to reorganize their forces and by late 1958 had successfully extended the struggle from the Sierra Maestra mountains to the heart of the island.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn January 1, 1959, Batista fled Cuba. In response to a call by Fidel, hundreds of thousands of Cubans launched an insurrectionary general strike that ensured the victory of the revolution. Fidel Castro arrived triumphantly in Havana on January 8 as commander-in-chief of Cuba’s victorious Rebel Army. On February 13, 1959, he was named prime minister, a position he held until December 1976, when he became president of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers. He was the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party from its founding in 1965 until 2011.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn July 31, 2006, shortly before his 80th birthday, Fidel Castro handed over all his positions in the Cuban government and Communist Party to his brother Raúl, minister of defense and first vice-president of the Council of State.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFidel Castro died on November 25, 2016.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303657132261,"sku":"NP9781644213926","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781644213926.jpg?v=1767726842","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/fidel-castro-reader-isbn-9781644213926","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}