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Overview

In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought worldwide fame to the island, and in the decades that followed his Bacardi descendants participated in every aspect of Cuban life. With his intimate account of their struggles and adventures across five generations, Gjelten brings to life the larger story of Cuba's fight for freedom, its tortured relationship with America, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the violent division of the Cuban nation.
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Overview

In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought worldwide fame to the island, and in the decades that followed his Bacardi descendants participated in every aspect of Cuban life. With his intimate account of their struggles and adventures across five generations, Gjelten brings to life the larger story of Cuba's fight for freedom, its tortured relationship with America, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the violent division of the Cuban nation.

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Barry Gewen
There's a shelf of histories [on Cuba] to consult. But it's hard to imagine that any is as enjoyable as Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba by Tom Gjelten, a correspondent for National Public Radio. His book is as smooth and refreshing as a well-made daiquiri…What makes Mr. Gjelten's book such a standout is its quality of subjectivity. Presenting his history through the lives of people who affected the events they personally experienced and were in turn affected by them, he gives us drama, not chronology or statistics.
—The New York Times
From The Critics
Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba is at once a colorful family saga and a carefully researched corrective to caricatures of decadent pre-revolutionary Cuba and the 50-year disaster of Fidel Castro's rule…The Bacardi liquor story is every bit as engaging as Cuba's tumultuous political history, and both narrative strands are inexorably intertwined.
—The Washington Post

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780670019786
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 9/4/2008
  • Pages: 480
  • Product dimensions: 6.42 (w) x 10.88 (h) x 1.46 (d)

Meet the Author

Tom Gjelten is a veteran correspondent for NPR on international issues and a regular panelist on the PBS program Washington Week. He is the author of Sarajevo Daily: A City and Its Newspaper Under Siege.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 28, 2008

    Masterful History and Biography

    Looking for insights on Cuban history, culture, politics, Castro¿this is a good historical exposition of a country that has gone through more turmoil and experiments in government than perhaps any other in the Western hemisphere. Looking for an informative and exciting narrative about a family owned company¿this is a very moving story of a strong-willed entrepreneurial family blessed with three masterful CEOs in succession who figured out how to succeed worldwide despite being headquartered in a relatively unsophisticated financial backwater. Put these two stories together and the result is the proverbial whole being greater than the sum of its parts: an excellent journey juxtaposing financial acumen combined with patriotism, on the one hand, against a variety of dismaying governmental experiments, on the other, including Spanish colonialism, years of revolution, US intervention, embryonic democracy, dictatorship, and a Marxist state economic system. This was obviously a labor of love for Gjelten, a first rate NPR reporter and analyst, as reflected in the source documentation provided unobtrusively at the end of the book, the very thorough and useful Bacardi family tree and the extensive photograph collection that brings even more life to the already well-drawn characters.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 24, 2008

    THE GINGO GOT IT RIGHT

    About time someone took the time and effort to research about the Bacardi Family and there heritage and what a dream can come true Bravo Tom, Bravo.

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  • Posted March 20, 2010

    An experienced journalist researches history.

    Having read quite a few histories of Cuba, this book, although not directly a history of the island, reveals an excellent portrait of Cuba from the second half of the XIX century to the present, using the Bacardi family as a centrifugal force in Cuban politics.

    Tom Gjelten used an extensive bibliography and personal interviews to succeed in providing a very enjoyable and didactic account of the history of perhaps the most notorious Cuban surname in the last 160 years.

    At no point does Gjelten interject his opinions and with his fluid style never renders a boring sentence.

    Highly recommended.

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  • Posted November 15, 2009

    Cuba thrives on its heritage of rum-making

    This book is well-written and well-researched and gave an insight of life on the island before and during the Castro years.

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