Summary: The legendary life of Fidel Castro, from exiled revolutionary to the world's most controversial and longest serving head of state. As seen through the eyes of his wife, mistress and female cohort, this film reveals the untold story of Fidel's rise to become one of the world's most powerful leaders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIDBardach, Ann Louise.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 BARHastings, Max
Summary: "In The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-twentieth century--the thirteen days in October 1962 when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. Hastings looks at the conflict with fresh eyes, focusing on the people at the heart of the crisis--America President John F. Kennedy, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9106 HASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 972.9106 HASSummary: An unlikely trio - filmmaker Michael Rubbo, Geoff Stirling, a millionaire Canadian broadcaster and higher consciousness seeker - and Joey Smallwood, a former Premier of Newfoundland, travel to Cuba in a private jet. Their goal is to meet with Fidel Castro and create a dialogue between him and the United States. But Fidel never show up. Michael Rubbo records each step of this wayward quest to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WAISummary: Through interviews with relatives, loyalists, and enemies in Cuba and abroad, American Experience constructs an intimate and revealing portrait of the most resilient of leaders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FIDFabiny, Sarah
Summary: Describes the life of a man who has ruled Cuba since 1959, after leading a successful revolution overthrowing Batistas government and establishing a Communist regime in its place.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CASSummary: An overview of the worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies. Interweaves footage from the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests in the U.S., May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et alia. Contains official images, film clips, news coverage...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRIReid-Henry, Simon.
Summary: Draws on previously unavailable material to present a dual portrait of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara set against a backdrop of Cuba's revolutionary era, describing how their initial association of convenience was to fundamentally shape their political visions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Company 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9106 REILatell, Brian.
Contents: More radical than me -- A peasant from Biran -- The victim of exploitation -- We will all be heroes -- My true destiny -- So we can seize power -- He is our father -- My job is to talk -- I detest solitude -- The moral and political duty -- The corpse of imperialism -- My brother twice over -- More than enough cannons-- Afterword.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 LATErikson, Daniel P.
Contents: Introduction -- Die another day -- War of nerves -- The dissenters -- The empire strikes back -- The community -- Capitol punishment -- Spy versus spy -- The least worst place -- Through the looking glass -- The capitalist temptation -- Chasing Chavez --The king is in check.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9106 ERISummary: Castro at rally in Havana;(biased) narration indicates that summary trials and executions of Batista followers are under reconsideration; great indication of Castro's popular power in the years after the revolution
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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Maier, Thomas
Summary: "Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America's most remarkable espionage plots ever--with CIA agents, mob hitmen, "kompromat" sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices together in a top-secret mystery full of surprise twists and deadly intrigue. In the early 1960s, two top gangsters, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, were hired by the CIA to kill Cuba's Communist...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 MAISánchez, Juan Reinaldo
Summary: In The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape from Cuba.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CASTRO, FIDEL SANSummary: Fidel Castro in Havana, with guerrillas
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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Cooke, Julia.
Summary: "Over a period of five years, beginning when Fidel Castro stepped down from his presidency after almost a half-century of reign, journalist Julia Cooke embedded herself in Cuba, gaining access to a dynamic Havana--one that she found populated with twenty-five-year-old Marxist philosophy students, baby-faced anarchists, children of the whiskey-drinking elite, Santera̕ trainees, pregnant...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9123 COOSalas, Osvaldo
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 972.91 SALHunter, Stephen
Summary: When Soviet intelligence takes Castro under its wing, the CIA's response is to send in ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger, and in Cuba, Earl finds himself up to his neck in treacherous ambiguity, where the old rules about honor and duty don't apply.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HUNHunter, Stephen
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION HunterRasenberger, Jim.
Summary: A recounting of the Bay of Pigs Crisis drawing upon the author's father's connection to the events as they played out.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 RASWhite, Randy Wayne.
Summary: Doc Ford's old friend, General Juan Garcia, has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He is also feasting on profits made by buying historical treasures for pennies on the dollar. He prefers what dealers call HPC items--high-profile collectibles--but when he manages to obtain a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro between 1960-62 to a secret...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHIHansen, Jonathan M. (Jonathan Marshall)
Summary: "An intimate, revisionist portrait of the early years of Fidel Castro, showing how an unlikely young Cuban led his country in revolution and transfixed the world. Castro got his toughness from a father who survived Spain's nasty class system and colonial wars to become one of the most successful independent plantation owners in Cuba. He grew up to be full of contradictions. in prison, he showed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CASTRO, FIDEL HANSymmes, Patrick
Summary: Draws on interviews with Fidel Castro's former classmates at the Colegio de Dolores, an elite Jesuit school in Santiago, Cuba, to provide a close-up look at a little-known period in Castro's life and the effects of the Cuban Revolution on his classmates, many of whom left Cuba in its wake.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9106 SYMSummary: He stood defiantly at the center of some of the worst crises of the Cold War. After over forty years of rule, he remains one of the most controversial politcal figures of all time. Join Biography for a revealing look at the last great Communist leader.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FIDBlock, Lawrence.
Summary: "Because in 1961, no one would have called Fidel Castro the retiring type. There were five of them, each prepared to kill, each with his own reasons for accepting what might well be a suicide mission. The pay? $20,000 apiece. The mission? Find a way into Cuba and kill Castro. This breathtaking thriller, originally published the year before the Cuban Missile Crisis under a pen name Lawrence...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hard Case Crime 2009