Title: The sugar king of Havana
Description: In this dual history of a man and a nation, Financial Times journalist John Paul Rathbone uses the stranger-than-fiction story of Julio Lobo, a Cuban sugar magnate who controlled the world sugar market throughout much of the first half of the 20th century, to reveal the luxuries enjoyed by the elite class in pre-revolutionary Cuba.
Subjects: Sugar trade, Businessmen, Biography, History, New York Times reviewed, Businesspeople, biography, Cuba, history, 1895-, Cuba, biography
Places: Cuba
People: Julio Lobo (1898-)
Time periods: 20th century, 1895-