Che Guevara

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From the back of the book 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 world through armed revelation 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 window and carefully guarded Cuban government documents He has conducted extensive interviews with Che s comarades some of whom speak here for the first time and with CIA men and Bolivian officers who hunted him down Anderson broke the story of where Guevara s body was buried, which led to the exhumation and stat 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 Guevara illuminates as never before this mythic figure who embodied the high water mark of revolutionary communism as a force in history. Free Read Che Guevara [ author ] Jon Lee Anderson [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Jon Lee Anderson s biography of Che Guevara is exhaustively researched, which was a benefit to me, since I had never before studied Che s life in detail, nor had I read about the Bay of Pigs or the Cuban Missile Crisis from anything but an American perspective I found it to be an illuminating, albeit sometimes exhausting, read.This biography combines several approaches to history in one In the first section, Anderson provides vivid details of Che s early life, his love of literature and learni Jon Lee Anderson s biography of Che Guevara is exhaustively researched, which was a benefit to me, since I had never before studied Che s life in detail, nor had I read about the Bay of Pigs or the Cuban Missile Crisis from anything but an American perspective I found it to be an illuminating, albeit sometimes exhausting, read.This biography combines several approaches to history in one In the first section, Anderson provides vivid details of Che s early life, his love of literature and learning, his studies to be a medical doctor, and his travels through Latin America, which eventually helped to lead him to ...Great read it has depth plus it was intricately researched and well written balanced..saw the good and badhighly recommend. paperbackShoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man Ernesto Che Guevara s last words Anderson, 1991 735 Ernesto Che Guevara de la SernaThose words make me shudder And one will wonder, who this man is, that in his irrepressible idealism enlivened in clandestine activities and political conspiracies, dare deprive death of his satisfaction, for indeed decades later, Comandante Che, is now heroically revered Born Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, Che Guevara, was, unlike the ideology he died for Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man Ernesto Che Guevara s last words Anderson, 1991 735 Ernesto Che Guevara de la SernaThose words make me shudder And one will wonder, who this man is, that in his irrepressible id...Che, thug or hero Many in the West are quick to say thug Che was a true believer in liberating the underclass and freeing the countries from economic domination He was critical of the Soviet s system of privilege and critical of those in post revolutionary Cuba should privilege As far as being a thug he was quite tame compared to US supported dictators Somoza, Duvalier, Trujillo, and later Pinochet and Duarte Support for Somoza loyalists broughtviolence in Nicaragua but were supported Che, thug or hero Many in the West are quick to say thug Che was a true believer in liberating the underclass and freeing the countries from economic domination He was critical of the Soviet s system of privilege and critical of those in post revolutionary Cuba should privilege As far as being a thug he was quite tame compared to US supported dictators Somoza, Duvalier, Trujillo, and later Pino...I rarely give those 5 stars, but after some hard thoughts, I decided that this one deserves it The author tries to give an account as balanced as you possibly could about a man as complex as Che The research effort put into this is immense and it shows in the details The important thing for me was that Anderson showed us both sides of the man His other worldly drive for justice and solidarity, but also his cold blooded ruthlessness and obsession for discipline I firmly think he is one of th I rarely give those 5 stars, but after some hard thoughts, I decided that this one deserves it The author tries to give an account as balanced as you possibly could about a man as complex as Che The research...I did not read Che because I m a wannabe socialist or guerrilla I read Che because I generally like biographies I think it is good for twenty somethings who are asking what are my values and how will I commit to them in my life to read biographies of people who have done that whether their values are similar or different What I loved about this book was not only the lens on the fascinating history of Che s life and especially the Cuban revolution, but the dozens of journal excerpts from Ch I did not ...Over the years as Che Guevara was commodified, he became the most familiar figure and yet a misunderstood and unkown personality He became a brand that was used to sell everything from t shirts and mugs to canned beer In all this commodification, Che s life and what he stood for got lost Who was this extraordinary man who gave up his privilege and everything he cherished and dedicated his life to an idea and died for it This is a great biography that gives him a historical context and brings Over the years as Che Guevara was commodified, he became the most familiar figure and yet a misunderstood and unkown personality He became a brand that was used to sell everything from t shirts and mugs to canned beer In all this commodification, Che s life and what he stood for got lost Who was this extraordinary man who gave up his privilege and everything he cherished and dedicated his life to an idea and died for it This is a great biography that gives him a historical context and bri... 1960Extremely interesting biography of a very controversial man I m still not quite sure what to think of him, but I know considerablyabout him A side note my used copy had annotations throughout the first 200 pages en...A great biography about a generally misunderstood figurehead I have seen too much crap with Guevera s face on it tees, bandanas, medallions, pencil holders, etc His persona has been so commodifed it is important to understand who he was and what he represents Th...

Che Guevara
  • English
  • 27 April 2018
  • Paperback
  • 814 pages
  • 0802135587
  • Jon Lee Anderson
  • Che Guevara