M-26: A Biography of the Cuban Revolution

by Robert Taber

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Genres: History

259 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 18, 2014

About the author

Robert Taber traveled to Cuba in the late 1950s as a CBS investigative journalist to cover the country’s burgeoning revolutionary movement.

He became an eyewitness to history as he marched from the Sierra Maestra to Havana with the ragtag revolutionaries, led by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, who forced Batista to flee the country..

Reviews

[DRC · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting read of a journalist's impression of the Cuban Revolution written close to the fact in 1961, but with major problems that hold it back reading it in 2020. I felt that Taber's writing looked down on Cuban people often despite being fundamentally pro-revolution. He often writes of Latin Americans as overly emotional and often childlike, which makes his impressions difficult to take seriously nowadays. I got the sense that he viewed the Cuban Revolution as happening in spite of the various revolutionary organizations. Taber's writing also reflects his journalist background and focuses on stories of exciting events over all else which does not make for particularly strong history writing. I'd say this should be expected as one has to go out of there way to read M-26 in 2020 when there are countless other books about Cuba that have been written over the decades.
The best part of the book is the final chapter where Taber gives his impressions of what the Cuban Revolution reveals about the US government and he has some worthwhile insights. Overall I'd say M-26 has more worth as novelty than as a serious source of in depth knowledge on the Cuban Revolution. The 99 cents I paid for the ebook is about the right price for anyone who's willing to go into it with expectations in check.