Description
Book SynopsisThoroughly researched, written from a nonpartisan perspective, and as lively as a novel, this is the definitive biography of the revered Cuban patriot and martyr whose revolutionary movement eventually ended the Spanish colonial domination of Cuba.
Trade ReviewThe life, the history and the facts are all here in López’s volume. It is thorough, compelling and a generally lively account... * The Washington Post *
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Mariano and Leonor
- Part One: Before the Fall (1853–1870)
- Chapter One. An Unlikely Prodigy
- A Boy's First Letter
- Chapter Two. The Teacher Appears
- Chapter Three. Trial by Fire
- Havana Farewell
- Part Two: Exile (1871–1880)
- Chapter Four. Spain
- Chapter Five. A Young Man's Travels
- Chapter Six. Discovering America (1): Mexico
- A Secret Mission
- Chapter Seven. Discovering America (2): Guatemala
- Chapter Eight. Homecoming, Interrupted
- Part Three: The Great Work (1881–1895)
- Chapter Nine. New York (1): A False Start
- In the Land of Bolívar
- Chapter Ten. New York (2): No Country, No Master
- Chapter Eleven. New York (3): The Great Work Begins
- Chapter Twelve. New York (4): The Final Push
- Chapter Thirteen. Farewells and Rowboats
- A Narrow Escape—and One Last Letter for His Patria
- Chapter Fourteen. "My Life for My Country"
- Epilogue: A Hero's Afterlife
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
