Synopses & Reviews
Until now, the story of Narciso Lopez's daring invasions of Cubahas remained one of the great lost sagas of American history. Wildly famous duringthe mid-nineteenth century as the leader of a filibuster, a clandestine army, Lopezled the first armed challenge to Spain's long domination over Cuba. While U.S.historians have tended to view Lopez as an agent of pre-Civil War southernexpansionism, Tom Chaffin reveals a broader, more complicated picture. Although manysoutherners did assist Lopez, the web of intrigue that sustained his conspiracy alsoincluded New York City, steamship magnates, penny press editors, Cubanindustrialists, and nothern Democratic urbanbosses.
Drawn from archives in both the UnitedStates and Cuba and enlivened by first-person accounts and reports from federalspecial agents assigned to spy on Lopez, Fatal Glory holds appeal for bothscholars and the general reader with an interest in Cuba, U.S. foreign policy, orthe U.S. sectional crisis of the 1850s.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index.