[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED by the other Castro

[Charles Agvent]

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CASTRO, Fidel. FIDEL AND RELIGION: CASTRO TALKS ON REVOLUTION AND 
RELIGION WITH FREI BETTO. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1987). First 
Edition. Introduction by Harvey Cox. Lengthily INSCRIBED and SIGNED on 
the publisher's logo page by the author: "Para el Sr. Edgard/Bronfman, 
como recuerdo/de su visita a Cuba y de/la interesante e 
instructiva/conversacion que hemos sos-/tenido/Amistosamente/Fidel 
Castro/Mayo 12, 1987." Books signed by Castro are scarce, and this is a 
specially interesting example. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper.

After his father's death in 1971, Edgar Bronfman took over as president 
of Distillers Corporation-Seagrams Ltd. He became well-known 
internationally during the 1980s and 1990s as the president of the World 
Jewish Congress leading campaigns to free Soviet Jewry and compensating 
victims of the Holocaust and their heirs, as well as exposing the Nazi 
past of Austrian president Kurt Waldheim. In 1982 he became the first 
representative of a Jewish organization to speak before the United 
Nations. He was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton 
in 1999. In April, 2012 Bronfman joined 68 other billionaires in the 
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Giving Pledge. Bronfman's former 
father-in-law, John L. Loeb, owned 40% of Cuban Atlantic Sugar and had 
large personal holdings of Cuban real estate. The Bronfman family also 
had connections to the Kennedy family, going back to the Prohibition era 
and the head of each dynasty, Samuel Bronfman, Edgar's father, and Joe 
Kennedy, father of the assassinated President. Over the years there has 
been speculation, tenuous as it is, tying the Bronfman family to the 
assassination of John F. Kennedy. (#016944) $3,500.00

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