Eduardo Chibs The Incorrigible Man of Cuban Politics [Hardcover]

Ehrlichs extensive recounting of this dynamic era provides a lucid argument for affirming Chib?s importance in the Cuban pantheon. . . .Ehrlichs meticulous description of this period and his retelling of the ascent of Chib?s as the main opposition candidate in the election cycle to follow leaves no stone unturned. . . .This publication excels at illustrating the impact on the islands zeitgeist during a pivotal point by one of the most dynamic political leaders in Cubas history.A much-welcome and long-overdue English-language biography of the public life of Eddy Chib?s. But more than a biography, Ehrlichs account serves to provide deeper insight into the Cuban political landscape of the 1940s, and hence a deeper insight into the complexities of the 1950s. An important gap in our knowledge has been filled.A well-written and indispensable account of the late political life of Eduardo Chib?s, a major figure in the first half of the twentieth century in Cuba and a forerunner of the revolution that overthrew the Batista dictatorship in 1959.An important addition to this new scholarship on republican Cuba (190259). . . . The book provides much needed insight on one of the most important, yet neglected, figures of modern Cuban history, Eduardo Chib?s.? . . . [Ehrlich offers]? much needed historical detail, nuance, and analysis about a period and a man whose life (and death) decisively changed Cuban history. The book is organized in ten well-written chapters which chronicle the decisive moments of Chib?ss struggle against corruption and gangsterism. Each one is rich with detail about his activities, . . . such detailed accounts of both the man and his times provide us with a nuanced, multidimensional picture of Cuban political culture at a particular time in the countrys history.? . . . By telling these storiesby focusing on the choices particular people made at particular timesEhrlich shows us that nothing was inevitable in Cuban politics, least of all the revoluló4