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Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause
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Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause Paperback - 2009

by Tom Gjelten

This unique history of Cuba is captured in the life and times of the famous rum dynasty. In chronicling the saga of the Bacardi family, Gjelten describes the intersection of business and power, family and politics, community and exile. b&w photo inserts.


Summary

In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought worldwide fame to the island, and in the decades that followed his Bacardi descendants participated in every aspect of Cuban life. With his intimate account of their struggles and adventures across five generations, Gjelten brings to life the larger story of Cuba's fight for freedom, its tortured relationship with America, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the violent division of the Cuban nation.

From the publisher

Tom Gjelten is a veteran correspondent for National Public Radio on international issues and a regular panelist on the PBS program Washington Week. His reporting from Bosnia won him George Polk and Robert F. Kennedy awards. He is the author of Sarajevo Daily: A City and Its Newspaper Under Siege. He lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his family.

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  • Title Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause
  • Author Tom Gjelten
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 2009-08-25
  • ISBN 9780143116325 / 0143116320
  • Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 5.84 x 0.98 in (22.96 x 14.83 x 2.49 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: Caribbean
  • Dewey Decimal Code 338.766

Media reviews

"The Bacardi liquor story is every bit as engaging as Cuba's tumultuous political history, and both narrative strands are inexorably intertwined."
-The Washington Post

"A gripping saga that tells us just as much about human nature and the struggle between power and freedom as it does about Bacardi's transformation from a fledgling business into the world's top family-owned distiller."
-The Wall Street Journal

"It's hard to imagine that any [Cuban history] is as enjoyable . . . as smooth and refreshing as a well-made daiquiri."
-Barry Gewen, The New York Times

Citations

  • New York Times Book Review, 10/11/2009, Page 20

About the author

Tom Gjelten is a veteran correspondent for National Public Radio on international issues and a regular panelist on the PBS program Washington Week. His reporting from Bosnia won him George Polk and Robert F. Kennedy awards. He is the author of Sarajevo Daily: A City and Its Newspaper Under Siege. He lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his family.
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