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Give me liberty : the true story of Oswaldo Payá and his daring quest for a free Cuba

Call Number

  • 921 P343H (CEN)

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Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2022.

Physical Description

xxi, 519 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Summary

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David E. Hoffman comes the riveting biography of Oswaldo Payá, a dissident who dared to defy Fidel Castro, inspiring thousands of Cubans to fight for democracy.

Notes

Map on endpapers.

Contents

  • Prologue
  • part I. Search for liberty: Agony of the republic ; To tyranny and back ; "Bite, rooster!"
  • part II. Fidel: The firebrand ; The guerrilla ; "Jury of a million" ; The silencing
  • part III. Give me liberty: The secret library ; Defiance ; "Faith and justice" ; The movement ; The Stasi lessons ; Rebellion of the souls ; Rafts of despair ; The Varela project
  • part IV. The black spring: The Black Spring ; Under siege
  • Epilogue.

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