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The Sugar King of Havana
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: John Paul Rathbone
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-05 - Publisher: Penguin

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"Fascinating...A richly detailed portrait." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was the wealthiest man in pr
The Sugar King of Havana
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: John Paul Rathbone
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Penguin

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Documents the career of an influential Cuban sugar magnate whose life mirrored the turbulent course of post-independence Cuba's republic, discussing his celebri
King of Cuba
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Cristina Garcia
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-21 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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A Fidel Castro-like octogenarian Cuban exile obsessively seeks revenge against the dictator.
Blazing Cane
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: Gillian McGillivray
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-23 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Sugar was Cuba’s principal export from the late eighteenth century throughout much of the twentieth, and during that time, the majority of the island’s popu
Havana Nocturne
Language: en
Pages: 422
Authors: T. J. English
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-13 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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In modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere—old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars & flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era