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Fulgencio Batista: from revolutionary to strongman
Frank Argote-Freyre
Year: 2007, c2006.
Publisher:  Rutgers University Press. 
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table of contents
Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
List of Illustrations
List of Film Clips
Photo Gallery
Maps
[Dedication]
Preface
[Introduction]
Many Batistas
Current Biographical Literature
Dueling Interpretations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: End and Beginning
[Introduction]
Humble Beginnings
El Coloso
Chapter 2: Restless Adolescence
[Introduction]
Traveling Life
On the Railroad
Chapter 3: Sergeant Stenographer
[Introduction]
Cuban Army
The Family
Up through the Ranks
Chapter 4: Machadato
[Introduction]
Batista and the ABC
Enter Sumner Welles
Exit Machado
Chapter 5: Sergeants' Revolt
[Introduction]
A Question of Leadership
September 4, 1933
Open Revolt
Proclamation and Pentarchy
Farewell to Céspedes
Chapter 6: Revolution of 1933
[Introduction]
The Sergeant and the Ambassador
Angry Officers
Demise of the Pentarchy
Factions within the Grau Government
Revolutionary Legislation
Confrontation with the Communists
Battle of the Hotel Nacional
The Colonel and the Ambassador
A Plot to Kill
Chapter 7: An End to Revolution
[Introduction]
Fighting in the Streets
Atarés
Mr. Caffery of Louisiana
Incident at Sans Souci
Endgame
“Presidente Relámpago”
Chapter 8: The Mendieta Years
[Introduction]
The Relationship with Mendieta
King Sugar
Army Relations
The Conspiracy of Mario Hernández
Repressing el Pueblo
Chapter 9: Labor Unrest
[Introduction]
The Strike of 1935
Breaking the Strike
Death of Guiteras
Chapter 10: The Elections of 1936
[Introduction]
Time for an Election
Easing Mendieta Out
An Electoral Expert
Election Results
Chapter 11: In the Shadow of Batista
[Introduction]
President of the Banquet Circuit
Gómez and Batista: The Clash
Batista's Social Agenda
Impeachment
Chapter 12: Cuban Strongman
[Introduction]
A Compliant President
The “Believe It or Not” Congress
Triennial Plan
Chapter 13: Road to Democracy
[Introduction]
Political Alliances
Return of the Exile
Army Resignation
Elections of 1940
Epilogue
Appendix to the Electronic Edition: Supplementary Text
Excerpt of the author's oral history interview with Santiago Rey Perna, March 28, 1997
Excerpt of the author's oral history interview with Fulgencio Rubén Batista Godínez, April 30, 1998
Excerpt of the author's oral history interview with Mirta Batista Ponsdomenech, May 20, 1998
Excerpt of a letter from Fulgencio Batista to Ramón Cruz Vidal, June 3, 1971
Excerpt of a letter from U.S. Ambassador Sumner Welles to Edward L. Reed, April 26, 1933
Excerpts of a letter from U.S. Ambassador Sumner Welles to Congressman Hamilton Fish Jr., June 3, 1933
Excerpt of the unpublished autobiography of Mathilda Welles, Undated
Excerpts of a letter from U.S. Ambassador Sumner Welles to Congressman Hamilton Fish Jr., October 20, 1933
Excerpt of a letter from Ramón Cruz Vidal to Fulgencio Rubén Batista Godínez, October 5, 1990
Excerpt of the author's oral history interview with Fulgencio Rubén Batista Godínez, April 30, 1998
Excerpt of the military intelligence report from U.S. Military Attaché T. N. Gimperling, September 5, 1933
Excerpt of the military intelligence report from U.S. Military Attaché T. N. Gimperling, October 3, 1933
State Department dispatch from U.S. Ambassador Sumner Welles to the Secretary of State, October 6, 1933, 4 p.m.
Excerpt of the State Department dispatch from Charge d' Affaires H. Freeman Matthews to the Secretary of State, December 14, 1933, 11 a.m.
Telegram from Under Secretary of State William Phillips to U.S. Special Representative Jefferson Caffery in Havana, January 14, 1934
Excerpt of the author's oral history interview with Fulgencio Rubén Batista Godínez, May 19, 1998
Excerpt of a letter from Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles to U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, November 29, 1935
Excerpt of a Cuban intelligence report on presidential candidate Mario García Menocal's response to election tampering by Fulgencio Batista and the United States, December 8, 1935
Excerpt of a letter from Rogelio Jiménez Capote, former sergeant-teacher, to Emilio Carrillo, May 20, 1985
Excerpt of an account by Emilio Carrillo, former sergeant-teacher at a rural school in Camagüey, Cuba, Undated
Excerpts of a memorandum prepared by Colonel Fulgencio Batista and given to H. Freeman Matthews, First Secretary of the U.S. Embassy in Havana, November 17, 1936
Letter from Major Jaime Mariné, aide-de-camp of Colonel Fulgencio Batista, to the members of the Cuban House of Representatives, December 16, 1936
Excerpts from “Manifesto al Pueblo de Cuba”/ “Manifesto to the People of Cuba” by former President Miguel Mariano Gómez, December 26, 1936
Excerpts of the author's interview with Jorge Luis Batista Fernández, July 23–25, 2001
Excerpts of the diplomatic dispatch from U.S. Ambassador George S. Messersmith to the State Department, July 9, 1940
Notes
Chapter 1. End and Beginning
Chapter 2. Restless Adolescence
Chapter 3. Sergeant Stenographer
Chapter 4. Machadato
Chapter 5. Sergeants' Revolt
Chapter 6. Revolution of 1933
Chapter 7. An End to Revolution
Chapter 8. The Mendieta Years
Chapter 9. Labor Unrest
Chapter 10. The Elections of 1936
Chapter 11. In the Shadow of Batista
Chapter 12. Cuban Strongman
Chapter 13. Road to Democracy
Bibliography
Archives
Government Publications
Interviews
Newspapers and Magazines
Books and Periodicals
Index
About the Author
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Title: Fulgencio Batista : from revolutionary to strongman Frank Argote-Freyre.
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Subject Headings: • Batista y Zaldívar, Fulgencio, -- 1901-1973
• Presidents -- Cuba -- Biography
• Cuba -- History -- 1933-1959
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