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Fighting with Castro for Cuba's Freedom
Algonquin Books
July 2007
On Sale: July 12, 2007
300 pages
ISBN: 1565124588
EAN: 9781565124585
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
When William Morgan was twenty-two years old, he was working
as a high school janitor in Toledo Ohio. Seven years later,
in 1958, he walked into a Rebel camp in the Cuban Jungle to
join the revolutionaries in their fight to overthrow the
corrupt Cuban president, Fulgencio Batista. They were wary
of the broad-shouldered, blond-haired, blue-eyed americano
but Morgan's dedication and passion, his military skill and
charisma, led him to become a chief comandante in Castro's
army—he was the only foreigner to hold such a rank, with the
exception of Che Guevera. Vicious battles in the jungles were followed by victorious
revelry in the cities. Morgan married a Cuban beauty. He
single-handedly thwarted the Dominican Republic's attempt to
overthrow Castro. And he was chosen to work with Castro and
other high ranking Rebels to improve the quality of life for
all people. This man who had lived under the radar in
America was now a Cuban hero on the watch lists of several
governments, all of whom wondered whose side he was really on. It all ended in 1961, when, at age thirty-two, Morgan was
executed by firing squad, at the hands of Fidel Castro. Journalist Aran Shetterly takes us back to an era when
democracy could have flourished in Cuba. He interviewed
Morgan's friends and family and former Cuban Rebels, and
examined FBI and CIA documents in search of the truth. What
emerged was the true story of a young man who had never fit
in but finally found his place in the world by fighting
another country's war.
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