Table of Contents
Introduction On Rebels, the Powerful and Otherwise 1
1 Taking a Stand in 2016 15
2 Barack Obama's (Unkept) Promise 27
3 Two Bushes, Two Wars: Don't Trust Them If They Send You to War 47
4 Fidel Castro: Treat a Dictator like a Dictator 63
5 The Power of "No": Lessons from Cuban Dissidents 75
6 Hugo Chavez: I Am Not the Devil 91
7 The One Who Loses Is the One Who Tires First: Leopoldo López and Lilian Tintori 119
8 Carlos Salinas de Gortari: Mexico's Favorite Villain 129
9 Dilemmas of a Masked Guerrilla: Subcomandante Marcos 143
10 Enrique Peña Nieto: Saving Mexico? 153
11 Alvaro Uribe: The Irascible Survivor 169
12 The Cost of Rebellion: The Case of Ingrid Betancourt 179
13 Daniel Ortega, or the Revolution That Left Everything the Same 187
14 Money Isn't Everything: What the Super-rich Can Teach Us: Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Jorge Pérez 195
15 Don't Let Them Discriminate Against You: Sonia Sotomayor 213
6 Spike Lee and Doing the Right Thing 221
17 Do Your Homework-Lessons from Three Great Journalists: Barbara Walters, Oriana Fallaci, and Elena Poniatowska 231
18 Devoting Your Life to a Dream: Benjamin Netanyahu and Hanan Ashrawi 247
19 Know That You Will Win: Desmond Tutu 259
20 America's DREAMers: The First Step Is Losing Your Fear 265
21 Final Lessons: What I Learned from Thirty Years of Interviews 277
Appendix: Author's Speech to the Committee to Protect Journalists, New York, November 24, 2014 289
Acknowledgments 293