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This acclaimed national best-seller 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 revolution. Anderson 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 his assassination in the Bolivian jungle. With unprecedented access to personal archives, government documents, and rare interviews, Anderson reveals many details of Che's life that 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.
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"Superb…Anderson does a masterly job in evoking Che's complex character, in separating the man from the myth…[The book] is especially interesting for being written from a largely Cuban perspective."
New York Times Book Review
"Anderson's book is an epic end run around the guardians of the Che legend…One of the things that [his] dogged reporting has enabled him to do is to tell us, in wonderful new detail, about the hero as a youth."
New Yorker
"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