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"Intriguing,A highly detailed face." -Michiko Kakutani, The Brand New York Times Recognized in his time whilst the Master of Glucose, Julio Lobo was the richest person in pre-revolutionary Cuba. He'd a lifestyle fit-for Hollywood: he hardly survived equally a gangland shooting and a firing squad, and courted celebrities such as Joan Fontaine and Bette Davis. Only if he rejected Che Guevara's individual present to become Minister of Glucose within the Communist program did Lobo's years-long rule in Cuba arrived at a spectacular finish. Drawing on reports in the author's own genealogy and other reports of the area's misplaced haute bourgeoisie, The Glucose Master of Havana is just a rare symbol of Cuba's an optimistic screen -and glistening past into its potential.