Books, Arts & Manners: Faith in Fidel

Fidel and Religion, by Frei Betto (Simon & Schuster, 314 pp., $19.95)

If you haven’t had the privilege of sitting in a hot stadium listening to Fidel Castro speak for five hours, this may be the book for you. Father Betto is a Brazilian priest of the liberationist persuasion, and his fawning interviews with Castro make Tad Szulc’s Fidel: A Critical Portrait seem, by comparison, like a critical portrait.

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Fidel and Religion, by Frei Betto (Simon & Schuster, 314 pp., $19.95)

If you haven’t had the privilege of sitting in a hot stadium listening to Fidel Castro speak for five hours, this may be the book for you. Father Betto is a Brazilian priest of the liberationist persuasion, and his fawning interviews with Castro make Tad Szulc’s Fidel: A Critical Portrait seem, by comparison, like a critical portrait.