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Guerrillas in Power: The Course of the Cuban Revolution By K. S. Karol Hill & Wang, 624 pp., $12.50

Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom By Hugh Thomas Harper, 1,696 pp., $20 Three months after he came to power in Cuba, Fidel Castro undertook a widely publicized visit to the U.S. Even as his airplane touched down in Washington, his firing squads were executing large numbers of Cubans adjudged by “revolutionary tribunals” to be enemies of the state. But that seemed only to make Castro a more romantic figure— so much so that the New York public-relations agency handling his trip had to turn down innumerable requests from universities and social clubs that the guerrilla leader favor them with an appearance.

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Guerrillas in Power: The Course of the Cuban Revolution By K. S. Karol Hill & Wang, 624 pp., $12.50

Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom By Hugh Thomas Harper, 1,696 pp., $20 Three months after he came to power in Cuba, Fidel Castro undertook a widely publicized visit to the U.S. Even as his airplane touched down in Washington, his firing squads were executing large numbers of Cubans adjudged by “revolutionary tribunals” to be enemies of the state. But that seemed only to make Castro a more romantic figure— so much so that the New York public-relations agency handling his trip had to turn down innumerable requests from universities and social clubs that the guerrilla leader favor them with an appearance.