Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. End and Beginning
2. Restless Adolescence
3. Sergeant Stenographer
4. Machadato
5. Sergeant's Revolt
6. Revolution of 1933
7. An End to Revolution
8. The Mendieta Years
9. Labor Unrest
10. The Elections of 1936
11. In the Shadow of Batista
12. Cuban Strongman
13. Road to Democracy
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

FRANK ARGOTE-FREYRE is an assistant professor of history at Kean University and works as an activist in the Latino community.

Reviews

"Balanced, judicious and fluently written, Argote-Freyre's biography offers an important and long overdue scholarly reassessment of a crucial figure in Cuban history."
*Publishers Weekly*

"Written in an engaging style and based on solid scholarship, this work by Argote-Freyre should make us wonder how we have gone this long without an authoritative treatment of the life and times of the man second only to Fidel Castro in his importance to twentieth-century Cuba. A sorely needed contribution."
*Florida International University*