Fidel Castro My Life, Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro My Life, Fidel Castro
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Fidel Castro: My Life
A Spoken Autobiography

Author: Fidel Castro, Ignacio Ramonet

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor, Todd McLaren

Unabridged: 26 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/15/2008

Synopsis

For decades, people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Ignacio Ramonet, the celebrated editor in chief of Le Monde diplomatique, has finally succeeded. For the first time, in a series of extensive and probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes his life from the 1950s to the present day. In frank and compelling detail, he discusses his parents and his childhood, his earliest influences, the beginnings of the revolution, his relationship with Che Guevara, the drama of the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Jimmy Carter years, Cuban migration to the United States, his dealings with successive American presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush, and his relationship with such controversial leaders as Saddam Hussein and Hugo Chavez. 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 in Cuba. This book will stand as the definitive record of an extraordinary life lived in turbulent times.

About Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro is the former president of Cuba. He led the revolution overthrowing Fulgencio Batista in 1959. Shortly thereafter, he was sworn in as the prime minister of Cuba. He became first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in 1965 and led the transformation of Cuba into a one-party socialist republic. In 1976 he became president of the Council of State as well as of the Council of Ministers. He also holds the supreme military rank of comandante en jefe ("commander in chief") of the Cuban armed forces.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tanya on April 09, 2012

Fantastic book. I definitely recommend it as an interesting read about one of the most fascinating leaders in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. And shame on the United States government. Even before I heard what Fidel's perspective as Cuba's leader of the Revolution had to say, I was disgust......more

Goodreads review by Greg on February 16, 2019

Contents Map of Cuba A Hundred Hours with Fidel 1 The Childhood of a Leader  Childhood in Birán - Don Angel - The batey - Fidel's mother - Living in the teacher's house - Colegio de la Salle - Echoes of the war in Spain - The Jesuits of the Colegio de Dolores 2  The Forging of a Rebel The first rebellion......more

Goodreads review by Praveen on February 25, 2022

Other than the Paris Review interviews and a few others, I am generally not a fan of interviews in the question and answer format. I would rather read a well-rounded profile or a piece where the quotes are weaved in with other details or insights, which is how I try to write too after interviewing s......more

Goodreads review by Josh on August 28, 2021

As a historical materialist, I don’t believe in Great Man Theory. No single person can drive history forward, and like everyone else Fidel Castro was born into particular circumstances outside of his control. Cuba’s achievements over the last 60 years are due to the masses of Cuban people making his......more

Goodreads review by Ed on January 16, 2009

I read this book at the request of a friend who thought it might be good for a me since, in his opinion, my perspective was too pro-US. Whatever, but I thought it might be interesting. Whatever one thinks about Castro, he certainly was present for some interesting things in history. And I knew very......more

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