AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Books In Brief (2).(memoir about living in Castro's gulag)(Review)(Brief Article)
Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag, by Armando Valladares, translated by Andrew Hurley (Encounter, 428 pp., $16.95)
Upon the publication of Against All Hope 15 years ago, its author was hailed as the "Cuban Solzhenitsyn." Richard John Neuhaus wrote in NR that the book was crucial to understanding the 20th century. Now returned to print in paperback with a new foreword, Armando Valladares's memoir of his 22 years as a political prisoner in Castro's prisons retains its power.
Valladares was working in a government office when he was arrested in 1960 for refusing to promise uncritical support for the new regime. Over the next two decades he endured torture, deprivation, and forced labor in some of Cuba's most notorious prisons. The details are by turns heartbreaking and inspiring: the everyday terror of prison life; ...
- Agitprops. (Thomas Friedman, Armando Valladares) (Beat the Devil) (column)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Cockburn, Alexander July 19, 1986 700+ words
...to get things done." Even by Friedman's deplorable standards this is amazing. * Against All Hope, the prison memoirs of Armando Valladares, has received some enthusiastic reviews, notably in Time and in The New York Book Review, where...
- Ex-prisoner now speaks freely // Armando Valladares issues spirited retort to...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Wendy Smith August 10, 1986 700+ words
When Armando Valladares was 23 years old, he was arrested...recently published book, Against All Hope (Knopf, $18.95), describes the...change from within. That's what I hope for." The other important element in...
- Just two decades after the Cold War's end, we shouldn't need Armando Valladares...
- Magazine article from: National Review February 23, 2009 700+ words
Just two decades after the Cold War's end, we shouldn't need Armando Valladares to point out the horrors of Communism. But when filmmakers put out works like Che, we are fortunate to have the likes of Valladares...
- U.S. representative to the United Nations to testify on human rights in Cuba....
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 19, 1989 700+ words
...ASSIGNMENT EDITOR: U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TO THE UNITED NATIONS TO TESTIFY ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA Ambassador Armando Valladares, current U.S. Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Commission and former Cuban political prisoner...
- Fire from the mountain.
- Magazine article from: The Nation Shorris, Earl May 10, 1986 700+ words
AGAINST ALL HOPE. FIRE FROM THE MOUNTAIN...a guerrilla; and Armando Valladares, who had been a political...the future that Armando Valladares predicts for the land...or self-imposed. Armando Valladares spent twenty-two...
- Fidel Castro's daughter holds press conference in Georgia after receiving...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Chardy, Alfonso December 23, 1993 700+ words
...rights organization founded by Armando Valladares, capped two months of secret...it with her friend and ally Armando Valladares, a former Cuban political prisoner...conclusions.'' She said she hopes to form some kind of a health...
- Human rights ride again. (United Nations Commission on Human Rights) (column)
- Magazine article from: National Review Buckley, William F., Jr. April 15, 1988 700+ words
...this year's delegation to that commission is Armando Valladares (now a U.S. citizen), and if he is not...expect, a vicious campaign was mounted against Armando Valladares's Against AU Hope, a brilliant, devastating expose of 22 years...
- Fidel.
- Magazine article from: National Review Bethell, Tom February 13, 1987 700+ words
Against All Hope, by Armando Valladares (Knopf, 380 pp., $18.95) Fidel: A Critical Portrait...of the Caribbean and his private domain. The first, by Armando Valladares, has already received well-deserved attention. After...