“A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”Fidel Castro was perhaps the most charismatic and controversial head of state in modern times.Castro took power on New Year’s Day in 1959 serenaded by the Western media for toppling dictator Fulgencio Batista and promising democracy.He soon revealed that his goal was to impose Communist rule.He exiled clergy, took over Catholic schools and expropriated businesses.Firin...

In this memoir, Fidel Castro describes his historic political partnership and personal friendship with Che Guevara, a relationship that changed the course of Cuban politics and world history.“For me it has been hard to accept the idea that Che is dead. I have dreamed of him often, that I spoke with him, that he was alive.”In this uncharacteristically gentle epitaph in book form, Castro brings Che Guevara—the man, the thinker, and Fidel’s greatest f...

Refugees, asylum seekers, family separation, migrant detention. As the current US administration ratchets up a racist and dehumanizing immigration policy, it often seems that pretty much anything would be a better. The authors of this book have a somewhat longer memory than our mainstream media. They were, for the most part, DREAMers who fought for the passage of the DREAM Act under the Obama administration, and lost. That experience taught them hard lessons and allows them to see so...

A comprehensive anthology with more than 30 speeches that span five decades by Fidel Castro, one of history’s greatest orators.Emerging in the 1960s as a leading voice in support of anticolonial struggles, then continuing to play a role in the antiglobalization movement in the subsequent decades, Fidel Castro was an articulate and penetrating—if controversial—political thinker and leader, who outlasted ten US presidents.Covering five decades of Fidel’s spee...

Early in Ann Louise Bardach's Cuban voyage she came across Cartas de Presidio or The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro. Edited by Luis Conte Aguero, who was the recipient of most of these letters, they are cited in every important work from Hugh Thomas' opus Cuba to Tad Szulc's Fidel biography, and everything in between and since. These twenty-one letters (nine to Conte Aguero, six to his late sister and close collaborator, Lidia, one to his wife Mirta, one to his comrade in combat, ...

The most widely feared misfits and controversial heretics to ever challenge society norms and behavior are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From convicted murderers James Earl Ray and Jeffrey MacDonald, to activists Abbie Hoffman and Saul Alinsky, to revolutionary leaders Yasir Arafat and Fidel Castro, these iconoclasts and contrarians reflect the very best of the 50 years of the Playboy Interview.

Dr. Jeffrey M. Elliot and former Rep. Mervyn M. Dymally here contribute a lengthy, revealing interview with Cuban President Fidel Castro, discussing a wide-ranging series of topics dealing with local and international politics and economics, as well as the future of Cuba, the third world, Central and South America, and the United States.

The last diary of revolutionary Che Guevara with entries up until two days before his murder.This new edition of Che Guevara's diary of the last year of his life describes Che's efforts to launch a guerrilla insurrection against the military government of Bolivia. It was found in his backpack when he was captured by the Bolivian Army in October 1967.This edition includes Fidel Castro's "A Necessary Introduction," exposing the lies of an earlier, pre-emptive edition...

In response to the American administration’s attempt to isolate Cuba, Fidel Castro delivered a series of speeches designed to radicalize Latin American society. As Latin America experiences more revolutions in Venezuela and Bolivia, and continues to upset America’s plans for neo-liberal imperialism, renowned radical writer and activist Tariq Ali provides a searing analysis of the relevance of Castro’s message for today.

Game on. The greatest athletes to ever play their respective sports are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From His Royal Airness Michael Jordan to the Great One Wayne Gretzky to Homerun King Hank Aaron, these incomparable athletes—the closest living equivalent to superheroes—reflect the very best of 50 years of the Playboy Interview. Sports Gods is part of the 50 Years of the Playboy Interview e-book series, for which the ma...

The filmmakers who defy convention and validate the legitimacy of the auteur theory are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From foreign masters of direction and style Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini to champions of independent film Spike Lee and The Coen Brothers to the godfathers of the gangster movie Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, the visionaries to constantly push the boundaries of their medium and portray hu...

The couples who have loved the hardest, longest and most publicly over the last 50 years are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the tempestuous Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold to the eternally devoted John Lennon and Yoko Ono to the comically intertwined Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, these duos are the best evidence yet that two is always better than one. Coupling is part of the 50 Years of the Playboy Interview e-book serie...