Much is being said about how an Obama presidency will affect the relationship with Cuba, so let me take this opportunity to recommend an excellent biography of Fidel Castro written by the late journalist Tad Szulc.
Fidel Castro: A Critical Portrait, contains all the ingredients of a great biography: comprehensive research, an interesting character, balanced and insightful analysis, and very good writing. Tad Szulc put together a book that should be used in class as an example of how to write a biography.
The only downside is that it was published more than 20 years ago, so it doesn't cover the period after the end of the cold war and the collapse of communist regimes around the world.
