Che Guevara

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Bkicraiiliy, HMoiy (Latin Aimrica)
(IE fiUEUm k BEYOLUTIONARY LIFE JON LEE ANDERSON
A MEW YORK TIIWES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF THE VILLAQE VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'« 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 1997 A BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE OF 1997 ONE OF NEWSDAY'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 1997
Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing wortd through armed revolution. Jon Lee Anderson's biography traces Che's extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro's government to his failed campaign in the Congo and assassination in the Bolivian jungle.
Anderson has had unprecedented access to the personal archives maintained by Guevara's widow and carefully guarded Cuban government documents. He has conducted extensive interviews with Che's comrades—some... Tovább

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Bkicraiiliy, HMoiy (Latin Aimrica)
(IE fiUEUm k BEYOLUTIONARY LIFE JON LEE ANDERSON
A MEW YORK TIIWES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF THE VILLAQE VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'« 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 1997 A BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE OF 1997 ONE OF NEWSDAY'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 1997
Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing wortd through armed revolution. Jon Lee Anderson's biography traces Che's extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro's government to his failed campaign in the Congo and assassination in the Bolivian jungle.
Anderson has had unprecedented access to the personal archives maintained by Guevara's widow and carefully guarded Cuban government documents. He has conducted extensive interviews with Che's comrades—some of whom speak here for the first time—and with the CIA men and Bolivian officers who hunted him down. Anderson broke the stoty of where Guevara's body was buried, which led to the exhumation and state burial of the bones. Many of the details of Che's life have long been cloaked in secrecy and intrigue. Meticulously researched and full of exclusive information, Che Cuevara illuminates as never before this mythic figure who embodied the high watermark of revolutionary communism as a force in history.
"Excellent admirably honest [and] staggeringly researched It is unlikely that after Anderson's exhaustive contribution, much more will be learned about Guevara."—LOS ANGELES TIMES
"An enduring achievement. It is hard to imagine that any [other biography] will match the volume and
detail of the research here____[Guevara's] victories and failures, equally spectacular, are part of our
common history Che lives, not only in this book, but in the world."—THE BOSTON GLOBE
" [Che's] ideal, that curious mixture of resoluteness and recklessness is brilliantly evoked in Jon Lee
Anderson's massive biography which traces, with exacting precision, the avatars of Che's epic life____
The portrait is now as complete as it will ever be."—THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (London)
Jon Lee Anderson began working as a reporter in 1979 for the Lima Times in Peru. During the 1980s he covered ; Central America, first for the syndicated columnist Jack Anderson and later for lime magazine. He has also'j written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper's, Life, and The Nation and is the author of Cuemllai\ Jon Lee Anderson lives in Spain with his family.
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