Fidel castro autobiography review
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Reviewed by Roger Keeran
March 2, 2017
Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography by Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet.
Fidel castro autobiography review
New York, New York: Scribner, 2006. $40.00. Pp. 724.
In 2003, 2004, and 2006, ten years before the death of Fidel Castro, Ignacio Ramonet, the editor of Le Monde diplomatique, conducted over a hundred hours of interviews with Fidel Castro.
After Castro read and revised the transcripts, the interviews became the current book.
Fidel castro biography
Since Castro never wrote his memoirs and gave only four other substantial interviews in his life, this book represents the most comprehensive document of Castro’s recollections and ideas.
Yet, many Americans on the left may be unaware of this book.
Unlike in England, where the Independent, the Telegraph and the Guardian reviewed My Life, in the United States no major publication—the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal or the New York Review of Books saw fit to mention it. Indeed, the on