This is a timely look at the fascinating story of how Castro, master of the pubic image, lifted himself from a background of poverty and a broken family to impose himself on the world, almost to the point to turning everything upside down. Raffy argues that although in retrospect Castro is a stalwart of the Communist movement in the West, he was not always loyal to any particular cause. Indeed, he went whichever way that was politically promising. Includes many previously unseen documents.