CUBA 1952 - 1959 | Cuba 1952-1959: The True Story of Castro's Rise to Power

The real McCoy | Cuba 1952-1959: The True Story of Castro's Rise to Power | Manuel Marquez-Sterling

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	• Cuba 1952-1959: The True Story of Castro's Rise to Power Manuel Marquez-Sterling Kleiopatria Digital Press, 2009 - 276 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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A New Understanding

Professor Emeritus Manuel Marquez Sterling has lifted the veil that has obscured a clear understanding of what really took place in Cuba leading up to Castro's coup.

"Cuba" is a clearly argued, well documented and very readable history of the 7 years during which too many in Cuba and the US misread Castro's revolution.

A must read for anyone who wants to know the truth about what happened and why.

CUBA 1952 - 1959

Very well written by Professor Manuel Marquez Sterling
Amazing historical facts of how Castro took over Cuba
and became a Comunist Dictator.
M. Hidalgo
Miami, FL

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The real McCoy

CUBA 1952-1959 by Manuel Márquez-Sterling: straight-arrow to reality. "The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth". Based only on pure proved facts, not hearsay, Objectively written without taking sides, and extremely well documented.

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Cuban Revolution: The Missing Perspective

I read this book while taking a short seminar on Cuba, and it was very useful. It was good to be exposed to this "other" history of the Cuban Revolution, and understand that it wasn't just a Batista vs. Castro story. Very important to me, the book did a real service of reminding the reader that beneath major events are always some set of actors, among whom interacting predilections, decisions and actions combine to yield the observable events. The observable events always seem to take on the character of a simple, easily remembered story, which obscures what actually happened. So it was very interesting to read the accounts of the involvement of the different characters. And the book was very nicely produced, too; good layout, look & feel.

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Author Manuel Márquez-Sterling writes about Fidel Castro and his revolution from direct personal experience, as a historian with broad and deep knowledge of 50s Cuba. The author knew and had contact with many of the historical figures in the book's pages. His penetrating analysis of the public and behind-the-scenes events clears the fog and shatters myths to reveal the real story of the Cuban Revolution. The book explains how Castro came to power through the convergence of rabid partisanship, radical student politics, media bias, and venal politicians who placed self interest ahead of preserving democracy. Facing a constitutional crisis, these parties espoused "the end justifies the means", embracing political gangsterism and eschewing negotiations with political opponents- resulting in a power vacuum Castro exploited to seize power. Masterful propaganda cast Castro as pro-democracy hero, avoiding scrutiny of his plans for a totalitarian state under his control.

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