Fulgencio Batista From Revolutionary to Strongman (Volume 1) by FrankArgote-Freyre Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2006 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3701-6, ISBN: 0-8135-3701-0
""Written in an engaging style and based on solid scholarship, this work by Argote-Freyre should make us wonder how we have gone this long without an authoritative treatment of the life and times of the man second only to Fidel Castro in his importance to twentieth-century Cuba. A sorely needed contribution." Lisandro Perez, Florida International University Pawn of the U.S. government. Right-hand man to the mob. Iron-fisted dictator ..."
""A Brief History of the Caribbean" is an overview of the historical events that have taken place and shaped the islands of the Caribbean Sea - beginning with an account of the indigenous populations before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 and ending with the major political and economic developments in early 2007 in Aruba, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, among others.The historical perspective i ..."
"The fates of the two lovers and Cuba itself hang in the balance as they desperately race into the country on the night when Cuba was lost."--Back cover."
"The 1692 rebellion involved more than 300 slaves, nearly one-third of whom
were executed. During the second half of the 18th century, there were eight
rebellions in Jamaica; during the first half of the 19th century, six rebellions were
reported in Cuba. As noted in an earlier chapter, Haiti was the scene of the only
successful slave revolution in the history of the modern world. One of the
bloodiest uprisings occurred in Grenada. ..."
Fulgencio Batista The Making of a Dictator by FrankArgote-Freyre 416 Pages, Published 2006 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-7899-6, ISBN: 0-8135-7899-X
"In this book, the first of two volumes, Frank Argote-Freyre provides a full and balanced portrait of this historically shadowed figure."
Fulgencio Batista From Revolutionary to Strongman by FrankArgote-Freyre by FrankArgote-Freyre 416 Pages, Published 2006 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4100-6, ISBN: 0-8135-4100-X
"Rogelio Jiménez Capote to Emilio Carrillo, May 20, 1985; Fulgencio Batista
Zaldívar Papers, private collection of Fulgencio Rubén Batista Godinez, Coral
Gables, Fla. Batista's eldest son provided it to the author, along with two other
accounts, one by Emilio Carrillo, undated, and the other by Mireya LaFuente,
undated. At one time, Carrillo, in exile in South Florida, considered writing a book
on the subject of the civic-military s ..."