附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-335) and index
Dependencies: Batista, Castro, and the United States -- Confusionist Cubanism: the political mess before Granma -- Sugar, North American business, and other bittersweets -- Curve balls, casinos, and Cuban-American culture -- Supplying repression: military, CIA and FBI links -- Thunderstorms: Castro's Granma rebels and the Matthews interview -- Ambassador Gardner and the propaganda war -- Violence victorious: Ambassador Smith meets the rebellion -- Expanding contact with the rebels -- Taking sides: arms, arrests, and elections -- Batista's self-destruction and the suspension of arms -- Terrible mood: Castro and the general strike -- Operation Fin de Fidel and U.S. weapons: anti-Americanism ascendant -- Rocket heads, kidnappers, and the Castros -- Frankenstein, Texaco, Nicaro, and a toughened attitude -- Burning up the wires: the quest for communists and arms -- A pox on both their houses -- Batista dismissed: Pawley's plot and Smith's blow -- U.S. third-force conspiracies and Batista's flight -- Madhouse: Castro's victory, Smith's defeat -- A complete break: how did the United States let this one get away? -- Failing the tests: the United States and Cuba in the Castro era
摘要:Today they stand as enemies, but in the 1950s, few countries were as closely intertwined as Cuba and the United States. Thousands of Americans (including Ernest Hemingway and Errol Flynn) lived on the island, and, in the United States, dancehalls swayed to the mambo beat. The strong-arm Batista regime depended on Washington's support, and it invited American gangsters like Meyer Lansky to build fancy casinos for U.S. tourists. Major league scouts searched for Cuban talent: The New York Giants even offered a contract to a young pitcher named Fidel Castro. In 1955, Castro did come to the United States, but not for baseball: He toured the country to raise money for a revolution. Thomas Paterson tells the fascinating story of Castro's insurrection, from that early fund-raising trip to Batista's fall and the flowering of the Cuban Revolution that has bedeviled the United States for more than three decades. With evocative prose and a swift-moving narrative, Paterson recreates the love-hate relationship between the two nations, then traces the intrigue of the insurgency, the unfolding revolution, and the sources of the Bay of Pigs invasion, CIA assassination plots, and the missile crisis. The drama ranges from the casino blackjack tables to Miami streets; from the Eisenhower and Kennedy White Houses to the crowded deck of the Granma, the frail boat that carried the Fidelistas to Cuba from Mexico; from Batista's fortified palace to mountain hideouts where Rau'l Castro held American hostages. Drawing upon impressive international research, including declassified CIA documents and interviews, Paterson reveals how Washington, fixed on the issue of Communism, failed to grasp the widespread disaffection from Batista. The Eisenhower administration alienated Cubans by supplying arms to a hated regime, by sustaining Cuba's economic dependence, and by conspicuously backing Batista. As Batista self-destructed, U.S. officials launched third-force conspiracies in a vain attempt to b
