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 ..."