Hubert H.S. Aimes, Ph.D. (Yale)
G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1907
Philip Foner
International Publishers
Philip Foner
A book in English about Cuba's "Bronze Titan" is a rare thing.
Edmund A. Chester
Henry Holt and Co., NY
Written in 1954, barely two years after Batista's bloodless coup in 1952, this effort tries to make Batista palatable to American readers. In doing so, the truth is stretched beyond logic. Consider this a pro-Batista public relations romp. This is one of the few books I've been able to find on the noted dictator.
Bartolomé De Las Casas
Penguin Classics
A record of how the Spaniards wiped out the indigenous cultures of the Indies. Required reading.
Philip Foner
International Publishers
Foner covers Cuban history with rare compassion and attention to Cuban sources, which makes him one of my favorite writers on Cuban history
Miguel Barnet
Curbstone Press
Adelaida de Juan
Ediciones Unión
In Spanish - An investigation into the role of political cartoons in Cuba during the various quests for revolution. En español.
Charleton Beals
J.B. Lippincott Company
Hugh Thomas
A big, fat, sturdy paperback, well written and researched.
Peter Schwab
St. Martin's Press, NY
Well thought out with lots of details.
Jane Franklin
Ocean Press
A very detailed chronology that covers every year from 1959 until 1995.
John Edwin Fagg
Prentice Hall
A dog. J.E. Fagg is downright insulting to Cuban culture as he excuses the U.S. policy of racism.
Area Handbook Series
This book is issued to military and embassy personnel to be stationed in Cuba. Surprisingly, its not quite as right-wing as Suchlickis book, but it features a number of significant mistakes. Martis birthday, for instance, is erroneously given as 1835, the maestro was born in 1853.
Jamie Suchlicki
Charles Scribners Sons
This book provides a pro U.S.-John Wayne version of Cuban History Some of the more obvious inaccuracies involve the authors explanation of the Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Platt Amendment. And he refers to Santeria as a cult. Go get em cowboys!
Luis E. Aguilar
Cornell University Press
A good book about a troubling time in Cuban history.
Magdalen M. Pando
Frank T. Fizgerald
1994 Monthly Review Press
Marifeli Pérez-Stable
Herbert L. Matthews
1961 George Braziler, Inc.
One of the better books of its kind covering the early revolutionary years. Matthews understand Cuban history better than most American journalists.
Fernando Ortiz
Alfred A. Knopf
Recently re-issued with an updated introduction.
Charles D. Ameringer
University Press
Florida
A look at Cuba's experience with Democracy.
Ramón L. Bonachea & Marta San Martín
Transaction
Publishers
A detailed study of "the first stage of the Cuban Revolution."
1999 Front Hill Pictures Production
Vintage Press
Edited by Cristina Garcia
A nice collection of stories and poems, including selections from José Martí, Alejo Carpentier, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Nicolás Guillén, Herberto Padilla and many others.
James Morton Callahan, Ph.D
The Johns Hopkins Press, 1899
Published shortly after US intervention in Cuba's war of independence,
this volume is more likely to be found at your better libraries.
972.9
C13
Carlos Franqui
Franqui's books are difficult to find but worth the effort. I'm hoping to find the book Franqui wrote about Castro. If you know where I can find it, please send me a note.
I.A. Wright
The Macmillan Company, 1916
Carlos Franqui
It's about time someone started re-printing Franqui's books.
Tom Chaffin
University Press of Virginia
Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis, Susan M. Rigdon
University of Illinois
Press
Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis, Susan M. Rigdon
University of Illinois
Press
María Luisa Lobo Montalvo
The Monacelli Press
A big, beautiful book full of wonderful stories and images. The history of this great city is well served by this deluxe edition.
Clifford L. Staten
Greenwood Press
Julia E. Sweig
Harvard University
Press
Ada Ferrer
University of North Carolina Press
Prologue by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Círculo de Lectores
In Spanish, but hopefully a translated version will be available soon.
Edited by Philip S. Foner
Holmes & Meier
Horatio S. Rubens
AMS Press, New York
Edited by Edward J. Mullen
Archon Books, 1981
David A. Lockmiller
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina
Press
An account of a difficult period that goes almost completely forgotten in most accounts of Cuban history. This one was published in 1938, and tends to ignore or gloss over the Cuban point of view. A better assessment of this period can be found in Luis E. Aguilar's "Cuba 1933: Prologue to Revolution."
Grover Flint, with an Historical Introduction by John Fiske
Lamson,
Wolffe and Co., 1898
You'll probably have to go to the library for this one, but it will be worth the effort.
Louis A. Pérez
Chapel Hill
José Martí
Allan Reed Millett
Ohio State University Press
Yvonne M. Conde
Routledge
Described as "one of the darkest chapters in Cuban history," this book tells the story of children who were sent to the U.S. by their parents in the early sixties.
Herbert L. Matthews
Anyone that wants to understand the revolution cant go wrong with this one. Matthews goes way beyond finger pointing and character assassination to shed light on a part of history largely misunderstood in North America.
Terence Cannon
Thomas Y. Crowell, NY
I tend to prefer books written by journalists (as opposed to traditional historians) and this is a good one.
Irwin F. Gellman
New Mexico Press
This one covers the relationship between the U.S. government and their Cuban dictator of choice.
J.P. Morray
MR Press
Edited by Louis A. Pérez, Jr.
SR Books
Philip S. Foner
Monthly Review Press
This two-volume set (also available as a single unit) is one of the most honest books you're likely to find on this topic. Hard to find but worth the effort.
Carlos Franqui
1968 Lyle Stuart, Inc.
And then there were twelve referring to the survivors of the "Granma" expedition in 1956 that launched revolutionary war against Fulgencio Batista.
Jules Robert Benjamin
University of Pittsburgh Press
Enrique Oltuski
Wiley
Richard H. Bradford
Colorado Associated University Press
Simon & Shuster
José Martí Translated by Manuel A.
Tellechea
Arte Público Press
Probably the best translation available of José Martís poetry. Fun. Entertaining. Brilliant.
Louis A. Pérez Jr.