Before “Cuba Libre”: The making of Cuba’s first president Tomás Estrada Palma

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In her debut, the writer and professor Dr. Margarita García has created a portrait of the person before he faced the “ocean of difficulties” of the presidency (as George Washington said when he was once elected) that in spite of everything crushed him. Developing her story via three continents, from being captured by a squad of Spanish infantrymen, to jail in Spain and inventive schemes of fund raising for expeditions of arms to the insurgents in Cuba, the book describes the intimate story of a patriot, a teacher, an idealistic revolutionary, a scrupulously fair man, and a stubborn president.

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