Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution: Age, Position, Character, Destiny, Personality, and Ambition

Perhaps the foremost social analyst and journalist on Cuban affairs, Carlos Alberto Montaner has now written a definitive study of the Cuban regime from the vantage point of the Cuban dictator. This is not a history of Cuban communism but rather a personal history of its maximum leader, Fidel Castro, Montaner's extraordinary knowledge of the country and its politics prevents the work from being a psychiatric examination from afar. Indeed, if irrationalities exist, they are seen as built into the fabric of the regime itself, and not simply as a personality aberration.

Carlos Alberto Montaner is director of Firmas, a news agency and journalistic bureau located in Madrid, Spain