Rathbone, John Paul <br/><br/>
The sugar king of Havana  : the rise and fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's last tycoon 
/ John Paul Rathbone 
 - New York  : Penguin Press  , 2010. 
 - 304 p.  : ill., map  ; 25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-292) and index. 
<br/><br/>A triste tropical tryst -- The betrayal of José Martí -- A sense of home -- Sugar rush -- Death in the morning -- A talent for speculation -- The emerald way -- Sun, sea & shootings -- Imperial affairs -- At the altar -- Crepúsculo. 
<br/><br/> The son of a Cuban exile recounts the remarkable and contradictory life of famed sugar baron Julio Lobo, the richest man in prerevolutionary Cuba and the last of the island's haute bourgeoisie . 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 swathes 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780143119333 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010013790 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Lobo, Julio , 1898-1983 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sugar trade----History----Cuba----20th century
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Cuba---History
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD9114.C89  / L637 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>LAS 338.7 RAT