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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 revolution. Jon Lee Andersons biography traces Ches extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castros 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 Guevaras widow and carefully guarded Cuban government documents. He has conducted extensive interviews with Ches comradessome of whom speak here for the first timeand with the CIA men and Bolivian officers who hunted him down. Anderson broke the story of where Guevaras body was buried, which led to the exhumation and state burial of the bones. Many of the details of Ches 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.

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Praise for Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life:

A masterly and absorbing account of Latin Americas famous guerrilla leader ... Andersons book, easily the best so far on Guevara, is a worthy monument to a flawed but heroic Utopian dreamer.

The Sunday Times (London)

Remarkable ... Andersons account is well rounded and far from uncritical ... [his] journalistic flair and hard legwork are evident.

Foreign Affairs

Exceptional and exciting ... Andersons up-close look, with beauty marks and tragic flaws so effortlessly rendered, brings the reader face to face with a man whose unshakable faith in his beliefs was made more powerful by his unusual combination of romantic passion and a coldly analytical mind.... An invaluable addition to the literature of American revolutionaries.

Booklist

A solidly documented biography that succeeds, with brilliant effect, in stripping away the layers of demonization and hero worship that for so long have concealed the human core of this legendary figure ... Thanks to Jon Lee Anderson, we now have the true story, the real man, a portrait of exceptional substance to confound the myth and enhance our understanding of the facts.

The Kansas City Star

Jon Lee Anderson ... draws upon an unprecedented wealth of new information ... [an] assiduously researched and perhaps definitive biography.

San Francisco Chronicle

A skillful interviewer, Anderson elicited information from dozens of participants in Guevaras life.... Combining contradictory sources and an immense amount of detail, Anderson produces a multifaceted view of Guevara as a person, seething with ambiguities and complexities. This is an achievement that makes Che Guevara essential for anyone seriously interested in Guevara or the Cuban revolution.

The Nation

Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life gives an admirably balanced account of the Argentine adventurer, his real achievements and glamorous Robin Hood appeal.... An excellent guide to the myth behind the martyr.

The Independent (London)

The best [biography of Guevara] is Andersons epic.... A book that puts the evolution back in revolution, a meticulous record of this extraordinary life.

Newsday

It is Andersons careful research that will define Guevara for the future.

The Denver Post

A thorough and unbiased biography of a little-understood man ... who remains a father figure to modern-day revolutionaries around the world ... A book that sees the forest for the trees, and in a life as complicated and significant as Che Guevaras, that was no small task.

The Oregonian

Detailed ... the book tells as much as is likely to be known about Guevaras end.... As Mr. Anderson tells it, Che lives.

The Economist

The merit of Andersons work lies not only in the richness of details, but also in its objectivity.... Andersons book recounts in minute detail the chronology of an obsession.

Latin Trade

A sweeping biography of the Latino revolutionary and pop-culture hero. Anderson ... steers clear of ideology, arguing that the Argentine-born Guevara was both a brilliant tactician and fighter and the truest representative of the old international communist agitator the State Department warned us about.... Students of Ches life and deeds need look no further than Andersons volume.

Kirkus Reviews

Jon Lee Anderson has rediscovered the historical Guevara, and his authoritative biography goes far in obliterating all the sentimental dross that has accrued around the figure of the heroic guerrilla.

The New York Press

You would do well to read Jon Lee Andersons monumental biography, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life.... The books mere table of contents could serve as the syllabus for Che 101.

The Washington Post Book World

[Anderson] has researched diligently and has had access to much unpublished documentation.... This biography is ... absorbing and convincing because of its wealth of new information and willingness to let Guevara himself speak, in quotations from unpublished letters and diaries.... An indispensable work of contemporary history.

The Guardian (London)

Five years of research and unprecedented access to friends, family, and unpublished archives have allowed Anderson to fulfill his stated aim, to present the truth about Che Guevara.

Literary Review

A massive, painstaking biography of the Argentine guerrilla leader who devoted his life to the ideal of a unified Latin American revolution.

Buzz

A revealing portrait of the many Ches: the quixotic, freewheeling youth rambling around South and Central America in search of the good fight; the willful, asthmatic Jacobin of the Cuban Revolution; and finally ... the holy martyr of armed rebellion at age thirty-nine ... Che lives on as a paradox of his own time and ours.

Time Out New York

Jon Lee Andersons authoritative new biography shows both the passionate idealist and the cold-hearted disciplinarian.

Newsweek

Vividly detailed ... Anderson weaves a compelling psychological profile of Guevara.

The Buffalo News

Che Guevara by Jon Lee Anderson may still be the best [biography of Che] for its deft style and its details of Ches post-Cuba adventures. It is also the only one to carry interviews with Ches widow, Aleida.

Publishers Weekly

His biography appears to be definitive.... Obviously a reporter of great energy and enterprise, he scored at least two major scoops in his research: obtaining Ches uncensored diary of the guerrilla war in Cuba and discovering more or less where Ches body was buried in Bolivia ... genuinely gripping.

Harpers

[Anderson] manages to reflect his subjects special gleam, the mix of qualities that made the Argentine-born adventurer irresistible to those of his contemporaries bent upon the violent overthrow of governments, and a durable icon for succeeding generations of revolutionaries. Che Guevara is the best treatment of its subject to date ... because the patient reader can distill from it a vivid sense of Che the man.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Exhaustive and convincing.

The New York Review of Books

Among the remarkable things about Jon Lee Andersons monumental biography ... is its distinction as the first serious attempt in English to chronicle Guevaras life. In this the book is an enduring achievement. Other biographies are in the works, but it is hard to imagine that any will match the volume and detail of the research here. More important, Anderson has rescued Guevara as an essentially American figure, in the hemispheric sense of the word, one whose 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

Excellent ... admirably honest [and] staggeringly researched ... It is unlikely that after Andersons exhaustive contribution, much more will be learned about Guevara.

Los Angeles Times

Also by Jon Lee Anderson

The Fall of Baghdad

The Lions Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan

Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World

Inside the League (with Scott Anderson)

War Zones (with Scott Anderson)

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