Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life - Hardcover

Anderson, Jon Lee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802116000 ISBN 13: 9780802116000

Publisher: Grove Press, 1997

Synopsis

Making use of unprecedented access to Che's personal archives, his guerrilla cohorts, and Cuban government archives, an exhaustive biography traces the life of the Latin American communist revolutionary. 40,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

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Review:

Even to those without Marxist sympathies, Che Guevara (1928-67) was a dashing, charismatic figure: the asthmatic son of an aristocratic Argentine family whose sympathy for the world's oppressed turned him into a socialist revolutionary, the valued comrade-in-arms of Cuba's Fidel Castro and a leader of guerilla warfare in Latin America and Africa. Journalist Jon Lee Anderson's lengthy and absorbing portrait captures the complexities of international politics (revolutionary and counter); his painstaking research has unearthed a remarkable amount of new material, including information about Guevara's death at the hands of the Bolivian military.

About the Author:

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 Time magazine. He has also written for the New York Times, Nation, Harper s, Life, and the Nation and is the author of Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0802116000
• ISBN 13: 9780802116000
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 814