Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 336
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4422-4117-6 • Hardback • March 2015 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
978-0-8108-9515-7 • Paperback • December 2017 • $36.00 • (£30.00)
978-1-4422-4118-3 • eBook • March 2015 • $34.00 • (£25.00)
Ilan Ehrlich is assistant professor of history at Bergen Community College.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: “As Long As Any Cuban Suffers, I Will Fight for Him”
Chapter Two: “Shoot Me in the Heart, the Ortodoxos Need a Martyr”Chapter Three: “No One Respects the Constitution”
Chapter Four: “We are Alone With the People”
Chapter Five: “The Miracle of Chibás”
Chapter Six: “I Would Proudly Go to Prison to Defend the Cuban People”
Chapter Seven: “The Cave of Ali Baba and His 40,000 Thieves”
Chapter Eight: “I’m Not One of Those Generals Who Dies in Bed”
Chapter Nine: “Time Will Prove Me Right Once Again”
Chapter Ten: “I Am Going to Open My Briefcase” EpilogueNotes BibliographyIndex
Ehrlich’s extensive recounting of this dynamic era provides a lucid argument for affirming Chibás’ importance in the Cuban pantheon. . . .Ehrlich’s meticulous description of this period and his retelling of the ascent of Chibás as the main opposition candidate in the election cycle to follow leaves no stone unturned. . . .This publication excels at illustrating the impact on the island’s zeitgeist during a pivotal point by one of the most dynamic political leaders in Cuba’s history.
— International Journal Of Cuban Studies
A much-welcome and long-overdue English-language biography of the public life of Eddy Chibás. But more than a biography, Ehrlich’s account serves to provide deeper insight into the Cuban political landscape of the 1940s, and hence a deeper insight into the complexities of the 1950s. An important gap in our knowledge has been filled.
— Louis A. Pérez Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A well-written and indispensable account of the late political life of Eduardo Chibás, a major figure in the first half of the twentieth century in Cuba and a forerunner of the revolution that overthrew the Batista dictatorship in 1959.
— Samuel Farber, author of Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical Assessment
An important addition to this new scholarship on republican Cuba (1902–59). . . . The book provides much needed insight on one of the most important, yet neglected, figures of modern Cuban history, Eduardo Chibás. . . . [Ehrlich offers] much needed historical detail, nuance, and analysis about a period and a man whose life (and death) decisively changed Cuban history. The book is organized in ten well-written chapters which chronicle the decisive moments of Chibás’s struggle against corruption and gangsterism. Each one is rich with detail about his activities, . . . such detailed accounts of both the man and his times provide us with a nuanced, multidimensional picture of Cuban political culture at a particular time in the country’s history. . . . By telling these stories—by focusing on the choices particular people made at particular times—Ehrlich shows us that nothing was inevitable in Cuban politics, least of all the revolution of 1959.
— Robert Whitney, New West Indian Guide