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

Name: Sugar King of Havana The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon
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ISBN: 9781594202582

ISBN-10: 1594202583

ISBN-13: 9781594202582

Edition: 2010

Authors: John Paul Rathbone

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The son of a Cuban exile recounts the remarkable and contradictory life of famed sugar baron Julio Lobo, the richest man in prerevolutionary Cuba and the last of the island's haute bourgeoisie. Fifty years after the Cuban revolution, the legendary wealth of the sugar magnate Julio Lobo remains emblematic of a certain way of life that came to an abrupt end when Fidel Castro marched into Havana. Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Lobo was for decades the most powerful force in the world sugar market, controlling vast swathes of the island's sugar interests. Born in 1898, the year of Cuba's independence, Lobo's extraordinary life mirrors, in almost lurid technicolor, the many rises and…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/5/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Introduction






A Triste Tropical Tryst



The Betrayal of Josï¿½ Martï¿½



A Sense of Home



Sugar Rush



Death in the Morning






A Talent for Speculation



The Emerald Way



Sun, Sea, and Shootings



Imperial Affairs



At the Altar



Crepï¿½sculo


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Note on Sources


Notes


Bibliography


List of Illustrations


Index