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100 1 Rathbone, John Paul,|eauthor.
245 14 The sugar king of Havana :|bthe rise and fall of Julio
Lobo, Cuba's last tycoon|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /
|cJohn Paul Rathbone.
250 Unabridged.
264 1 [United States] :|bTantor Audio,|c2010.
264 2 |bMade available through hoopla
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511 1 Read by Simon Vance.
520 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 swaths
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 final fall of
the troubled Cuban republic. The details of Lobo's life
are fit for Hollywood. He twice cornered the international
sugar market and had the largest collection of Napoleonica
outside of France, including the emperor's back teeth and
death mask. He once faced a firing squad only to be
pardoned at the last moment, and he later survived a
gangland shooting. He courted movie stars from Bette Davis
to Joan Fontaine and filled the swimming pool at his
sprawling estate with perfume when Esther Williams came to
visit. As Rathbone observes, such are the legends of which
revolutions are made and later justified. But Lobo was
also a progressive and a philanthropist, and his genius
was so widely acknowledged that Che Guevara personally
offered him the position of minister of sugar in the
Communist regime. When Lobo declined-knowing that their
worldviews could never be compatible-his properties were
nationalized, most of his fortune vanished overnight, and
he left the island, never to return to his beloved Cuba.
Financial Times journalist John Paul Rathbone has been
fascinated by this intoxicating, whirligig, and
contradictory prerevolutionary period his entire life. His
mother was also a member of Havana's storied haute
bourgeoisie and a friend of Lobo's daughters. Woven into
Lobo's tale is her family's experience of republic,
revolution, and exile, as well as the author's own
struggle to come to grips with Cuba's-and his family's-
turbulent history. Prodigiously researched and
imaginatively written, The Sugar King of Havana is a
captivating portrait of the glittering end of an era, but
also of a more hopeful Cuban past, one that might even
provide a window into the island's future.
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
600 10 Lobo, Julio,|d1898-1983.
650 0 Sugar trade|zCuba|xHistory|y20th century.
650 0 Businessmen|zCuba|vBiography.
651 0 Cuba|xHistory|y1895-
700 1 Vance, Simon,|enarrator.
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