Without Fidel
Subtitle: a death foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington
By: Ann Louise Bardach.
Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781416551508; 9781416580072
Subjects: Castro, Fidel, -- 1926-; Heads of state -- Cuba -- Biography; United States -- Foreign relations -- Cuba; Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States; Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1959-1990; Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1990-; Cuba -- History -- 1959-1990; Cuba -- History -- 1990-
Genres: Biography
Description: An eye-opening account of the last chapter in the life of Fidel Castro: his near death, his enemies and their fifty-year failed battle to eliminate him, and the carefully planned succession and early reign of his brother Raul.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-314) and index.
Table of contents: title: The long dying; title: The pursuit of immorality; title: The family; title: The island and the empire; title: Writing for history; title: The Fidel obsession; title: The pediatrician and the exterminator; title: Murder in the sky; title: Miami Vice; title: Requiem for a would-be assassin; title: Raúl's reign; title: El Relevo : the relief pitcher; title: All the king's men; title: Calle Ocho at Foggy Bottom; title: The graveyard shift; title: Spooks, plotters, politicians & the law.