Title:
Che Guevara : a revolutionary life / Jon Lee Anderson.
Author:
Anderson, Jon Lee.
Publication Information:
New York : Grove Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2010.
Call Number:
F2849.22 .G85 A68 2010
Abstract:
"Jon Lee Anderson's definitive and acclaimed biography of Che Guevara manages to transcend the myth of Che and portray in unrivaled detail a complicated human being. In his quest to discover who the real Che was, Anderson moved to Havana and gained unprecendented access to the personal archives maintained by Che's widow. He spent months with Che's old friends in Argentina, where Che was born into an aristocratic family and went to medical school. He interviewed Che's comrades from battles fought in Cuba, the Congo, and Bolivia, and he talked to figures on both sides of the Cold War, in Moscow and in the CIA."--Cover, p. 4.
Edition:
First rev. ed.
ISBN:
9780802144119
Physical Description:
xv, 818 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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Contents:
pt. 1. Unquiet youth -- A plantation in Misiones -- The dry climate of Alta Gracia -- The boy of many names -- His own man -- Escape to the North -- I am not the person I was before -- Without knowing which way is North -- Finding North -- Days without shame or glory -- A terrible shower of cold water -- My proletarian life -- God and his new right hand -- The sacred flame within me -- pt. 2. Becoming Che -- A disastrous beginning -- Days of water and bombs -- Lean cows and horsemeat -- Enemies of all kinds -- Extending the war -- The final push -- pt. 3. Making the new man -- The supreme prosecutor -- My historic duty -- We are the future and we know it -- Individualism must disappear -- These atomic times -- Guerrilla watershed -- The long good-bye -- The story of a failure -- No turning back -- Necessary sacrifice -- Epilogue : Dreams and curses.
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