Eduardo Chibas

Ehrlich's extensive recounting of this dynamic era provides a lucid argument for affirming Chibas' importance in the Cuban pantheon. . . .Ehrlich's meticulous description of this period and his retelling of the ascent of Chibas as the main opposition candidate in the election cycle to follow leaves no stone unturned. . . .This publication excels at illustrating the impact on the island's zeitgeist during a pivotal point by one of the most dynamic political leaders in Cuba's history. * International Journal Of Cuban Studies *
A much-welcome and long-overdue English-language biography of the public life of Eddy Chibas. But more than a biography, Ehrlich's account serves to provide deeper insight into the Cuban political landscape of the 1940s, and hence a deeper insight into the complexities of the 1950s. An important gap in our knowledge has been filled. -- Louis A. Perez Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A well-written and indispensable account of the late political life of Eduardo Chibas, a major figure in the first half of the twentieth century in Cuba and a forerunner of the revolution that overthrew the Batista dictatorship in 1959. -- Samuel Farber, author of Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical Assessment
An important addition to this new scholarship on republican Cuba (1902-59). . . . The book provides much needed insight on one of the most important, yet neglected, figures of modern Cuban history, Eduardo Chibas. . . . [Ehrlich offers] much needed historical detail, nuance, and analysis about a period and a man whose life (and death) decisively changed Cuban history. The book is organized in ten well-written chapters which chronicle the decisive moments of Chibas's struggle against corruption and gangsterism. Each one is rich with detail about his activities, . . . such detailed accounts of both the man and his times provide us with a nuanced, multidimensional picture of Cuban political culture at a particular time in the country's history. . . . By telling these stories-by focusing on the choices particular people made at particular times-Ehrlich shows us that nothing was inevitable in Cuban politics, least of all the revolution of 1959. -- Robert Whitney, New West Indian Guide