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The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile

By Patrick Symmes

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2007
ISBN
9780375425189, 2006030323
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
427 kB (437037 bytes)
Series
Vintage Departures
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-04 13:53:17
Biography & Autobiography; History; Nonfiction; BI

Description

From the author of Chasing Che, here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s from among the most affluent and ambitious families in eastern Cuba, they were groomed at the elite Colegio de Dolores for achievement and leadership. Instead, they were swept into war, revolution, and exile by two of their own number, Fidel and Raúl Castro. Trained by Jesuits for dialectical dexterity and the pursuit of absolutes, Fidel Castro swiftly destroyed the old Cuba they had come from, down to the hallways of Dolores itself. At once sweeping and intimate, this remarkable history by Patrick Symmes is a tour de force investigation of the world that gave birth to Fidel Castro – and the world his Cuban Revolution leaves behind.

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