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Cuba Libre: A 500-Year Quest for Independence Audiobook
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This timely book provides a balanced, deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba since 1492. Tracing the island's history over five hundred years, the authors provide an incisive overview for anyone interested in exploring beyond the enduring stereotypes.
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“A productive partnership between Brenner, a veteran Cuba expert, and Eisner, an accomplished journalist, has brought forth an eminently accessible, engaging journey through five centuries of Cuba’s tortured yet hopeful history— a story unified, in the authors’ view, by the island’s heroic struggles for self-determination…Cuba Libre concludes with an empathetic and balanced discussion of the dilemmas facing Cuban society today.”
— Foreign Affairs
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“Narrator Robert Fass reads this audiobook with a straightforward informational approach…[and] provides listeners with a history of the nation that most Americans do not get in school…Fass is terrific with his Spanish pronunciations, and he paces himself so that we can understand every word.”
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This very accessible primer will fire the imagination of college students as well as provide curious U.S. travelers with well-reasoned answers to their most pressing FAQs.
— Richard E. Feinberg, University of California San Diego, author of Open for Business
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Michael Barrett, 12/25/2018
About the Authors
Peter Eisner has been an editor and reporter at the Washington Post, Newsday, and the Associated Press. His 2004 book, The Freedom Line, was the recipient of the Christopher Award. Eisner also won the InterAmerican Press Association Award in 1991, and was nominated for an Emmy in 2010 for his role as producer for the PBS news program, World Focus. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
Philip Brenner is professor of international relations and an affiliate professor of history at American University. He is a coeditor of A Contemporary Cuba Reader and coauthor of Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba’s Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis.
About Robert Fass
Robert Fass is a veteran actor and twice winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. He has earned multiple Earphones Awards and been named in AudioFile magazine’s list of the year’s best narrations for six years.