TY - BOOK AU - Bardach,Ann Louise TI - Without Fidel: a death foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington SN - 9781416551508 (hbk.) AV - 107 F 1788.22 C355Bar 2009 U1 - 972.91064092 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Scribner KW - Castro, Fidel, KW - Heads of state KW - Cuba KW - Biography KW - Presidentes KW - Biografías KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Politics and government KW - 1959-1990 KW - 1990- KW - History KW - Relaciones exteriores KW - Estados Unidos KW - Política y gobierno KW - Historia N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-314) and index; The long dying -- The pursuit of immorality -- The family -- The island and the empire -- Writing for history -- The Fidel obsession -- The pediatrician and the exterminator -- Murder in the sky -- Miami Vice -- Requiem for a would-be assassin -- Raâul's reign -- El Relevo : the relief pitcher -- All the king's men -- Calle Ocho at Foggy Bottom -- The graveyard shift -- Spooks, plotters, politicians & the law N2 - An eye-opening account of the last chapter in the life of Fidel Castro: his near death, his enemies and their fifty-year failed battle to eliminate him, and the carefully planned succession and early reign of his brother Raul ER -