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 ..."