Guerrilla Prince: The Untold Story of Fidel Castro

by Georgie Anne Geyer

Overview

With Guerrilla Prince, syndicated journalist Georgie Anne Geyer calls on her twenty-five years of experience covering Latin America to create an extraordinary biography that finally reveals the untold story of Fidel Castro. Based on hundreds of interviews with unique sources - including four extensive personal interviews with Castro - Guerrilla Prince is an intimate and revealing portrait, charged with all the electricity of the charismatic man himself. In this edition, Geyer adds a preface and an extensive epilogue to her 1991 hardcover text, addressing the changes since that time - the collapse of the Soviet Union, the internal unrest, and the growing anticipation of a post-Castro Cuba.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316308939
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	02/25/1991
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	445
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.19(d)

Editorial Reviews

Geyer's ambitious and revelatory, if somewhat feverish, biography of Fidel Castro presents the Cuban dictator as a personal and political failure, but as a military genius. Photos. (July)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Geyer, a syndicated journalist long familiar with Latin America and intrigued by Castro, has crafted a major biography of this enigmatic and fascinating figure. Her work differs from Ted Szulc's Fidel: A Critical Portrait ( LJ 1/15/87) in that it focuses on Castro's personality, on his personal rather than policy motivations, and offers a detailed psychological portrait. Geyer used some 900 interviews obtained over many years to document Castro's brutal treatment of thousands of Cubans and his fanatic hatred of the United States. The reader is left with a persuasive picture of a paranoid, erratic megalomaniac, whose personal life is a microcosm of his public behavior. Highly recommended.-- Roderic A. Camp, Central Coll., Pella, Ia.

Library Journal

A flashy, gossipy journalistic biography for those more interested in Castro's paramours than in his policies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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