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The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba’s Last Tycoon

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“Fascinating…A richly detailed portrait.” -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Known in his day because the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was once the wealthiest man in prerevolutionary Cuba. He had a life are compatible for Hollywood: he barely survived both a gangland shooting and a firing squad, and courted movie stars such as Joan Fontaine and Bette Davis. Simplest when he declined Che Guevara’s personal be offering to turn into Minister of Sugar within the Communist regime did Lobo’s decades-long reign in Cuba come to a dramatic end. Drawing on stories from the writer’s own circle of relatives history and other tales of the island’s lost haute bourgeoisie, The Sugar King of Havana is a rare portrait of Cuba’s glittering past—and a hopeful window into its long term.

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