Description
On this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi circle of relatives and their famous rum business with Cuba’s tumultuous experience during the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought around the world fame to the island, and within the decades that followed his Bacardi descendants participated in each and every aspect of Cuban life. Together with his intimate account in their struggles and adventures across five generations, Gjelten brings to life the larger story of Cuba’s fight for freedom, its tortured relationship with The us, the upward thrust of Fidel Castro, and the violent division of the Cuban nation.