The Sugar King of Havana
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The Sugar King of Havana by John Paul Rathbone
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 prerevolutionary Cuba. He had a life fit for Hollywood: he barely survived both a gangland shooting and a firing squad, and courted movie stars such as Joan Fontaine and Bette Davis. Only when he declined Che Guevara's personal offer to become Minister of Sugar in the Communist regime did Lobo's decades-long reign in Cuba come to a dramatic end. Drawing on stories from the author's own family 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 future.
John Paul Rathbone was born in New York and raised in England. Currently the Financial Times' Latin American editor, and a former editor of the FT s prestigious Lex column, he is a graduate of Oxford and Columbia Universities, and has worked as an economist at the World Bank, and as a journalist. His articles have appeared in many publications including The Wall Street Journal, Britain s Sunday Telegraph, Colombia s El Espectador and Esquire magazine, where he was business columnist from 2002-2003. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781594202582 |
| ISBN 10 | 1594202583 |
| Title | The Sugar King of Havana |
| Author | John Paul Rathbone |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Press |
| Year published | 2010-08-05 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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