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In this book, Frank Argote-Freyre provides a portrait of Fulgencio Batista. He describes Batista's rise to power as part of a revolutionary movement and the intrigues and dangers that surrounded him. Drawing on an extensive review of Cuban newspapers, government records, memos, oral history interviews, and a selection of Batista's personal documents, Argote-Freyre moves beyond simplistic caricatures to uncover the real man one with strengths and weaknesses and with a career marked by accomplishments as well as failures. The first volume focuses on Batista's role as a revolutionary leader from 1933 to 1934 and his image as a "strongman" in the years between 1934 and 1939. Argote-Freyre also uses Batista as an interpretive prism to review an entire era that is usually ignored by scholars the Republican period of Cuban history. Bringing together global and local events, he considers the significance and relationship of the worldwide economic depression, the beginnings of World War II, and in Cuba, the Revolution of 1933, the expansion of the middle class, and the gradual development of democratic institutions.--From publisher's description.
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Presidents, Biography, History, Cuba, biography, Cuba, history, 1933-1959, Dictators, Cuba, historyPlaces
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Fulgencio Batista: The Making of a Dictator
2006, Rutgers University Press
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Fulgencio Batista: Volume 1, From Revolutionary to Strongman
May 2006, Rutgers University Press
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