Cuba: Anatomy of a Revolution

Except for correcting a few minor slips and typographical errors, we have made no changes in the main body of the text. Two major misjudgments - that the oil companies would not refuse to refine Soviet oil and that the United States government would not cut the Cuban sugar quota - have been allowed to remain undisturbed because of what seems to us to be their considerable educational value. They testify to a lingering belief in the rationality of those who make United Staites foreign policy. We would like others to learn from our mistakes, as we hope we have. The important change in this edition is the addition of a chapter entitled "Epilogue- Cuba Revisited" which reports on a three-week trip to Cuba in September and October, 1960. That the few months intervening between the first and second editions have brought exciting and historically important changes in Cuba and Cuba's relations with the outside world, we hope we have demonstrated. --- from book's Preface to Second Edition