Jon Lee Anderson. (2010). Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (Revised Edition). Grove Atlantic.

Jon Lee Anderson. 2010. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (Revised Edition). Grove Atlantic.

Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (Revised Edition). Grove Atlantic, 2010.

Jon Lee Anderson. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (Revised Edition). Grove Atlantic, 2010.

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     Jon Lee Anderson has been a foreign correspondent for over twenty years. His work has appeared in Time, Harper's, The New York Times, and other periodicals. For The New Yorker, he has written profiles of General Pinochet, Gabriel García Márquez, and Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, as well as reporting from Angola, Cuba, Panama, Liberia, Iraq, and the Basque country in northern Spain. He is the author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life and Guerrillas: Stories from the Insurgent World. He received a Citation for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club of America for the pieces collected in The Lion's Grave.
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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 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 widow and carefully guarded Cuban government documents. He has conducted extensive interviews with Che's comrades—some of whom speak here for the first time—and with the 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 state 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.

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   • source: The New York Times Book Review
   • content: “Superb . . . Mr. Anderson does a masterly job in evoking Che's complex character, in separating the man from the myth . . ."
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   • source: Los Angeles Times
   • content: “Excellent . . . admirably honest [and] staggeringly researched . . . It is unlikely that after Anderson's exhaustive contribution, much more will be learned about Guevara."
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   • source: The Times Literary Supplement (London)
   • content: “[Che's] ideal, that curious mixture of resoluteness and recklessness . . . is brilliantly evoked in Jon Lee Anderson's massive biography which traces, with exacting precision, the avatars of Che's epic life . . . . The portrait is now as complete as it will ever be."
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   • source: The New Yorker
   • content: “Groundbreaking. . . . Anderson's book is an epic end run around the guard­ians of the Che legend."
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   • source: The Sunday Times (London)
   • content: “A masterly and absorbing account of Latin America's famous guerrilla leader . . . Anderson's book, easily the best so far on Guevara, is a worthy monument to a flawed but heroic Utopian dreamer."
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   • source: Foreign Affairs
   • content: “Remarkable . . . Anderson's account is well rounded and far from uncriti­cal . . . [his] journalistic flair and hard legwork are evident."
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   • source: Booklist
   • content: “Exceptional and exciting . . . Anderson's 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."
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   • source: The Kansas City Star
   • content: “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."
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   • source: San Francisco Chronicle
   • content: “Jon Lee Anderson . . . draws upon an unprecedented wealth of new infor­mation . . . [an] assiduously researched and perhaps definitive biography."
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    • source: The Nation
    • content: “A skillful interviewer, Anderson elicited information from dozens of par­ticipants in Guevara's 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."
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    • source: The Independent (London)
    • content: “Thirty years after his death, 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."
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    • source: The New York Review of Books
    • content: “Exhaustive and convincing."
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    • source: Newsday
    • content: “The best [biography of Guevara] is Anderson's epic. . . . A book that puts the evolution back in revolution, a meticulous record of this extraordinary life."
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    • source: The Denver Post
    • content: “It is Anderson's careful research that will define Guevara for the future."
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    • source: The Oregonian
    • content: “A thorough and unbiased biography of a little-understood man, dead 30 years, 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 Guevara's, that was no small task."
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    • source: The Economist
    • content: “Detailed . . . the book tells as much as is likely to be known about Guevara's end....As Mr. Anderson tells it, Che lives."
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    • source: Latin Trade
    • content: “The merit of Anderson's work lies not only in the richness of details, but also in its objectivity. . . . Anderson's book recounts in minute detail the chronology of an obsession."
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    • source: Kirkus Reviews
    • content: “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 Che's life and deeds need look no farther than Anderson's volume."
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    • source: The New York Press
    • content: “Jon Lee Anderson has rediscovered...
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      March 3, 1997
      At 25 (in 1953), Ernesto Guevara de la Serna received his medical degree in Argentina. A conventional career lay ahead if he wanted it. At 39, captured in a quixotic, doomed guerrilla operation in the Bolivian outback unenthusiastically financed by Havana, "Che" was shot to death as he lay trussed on the floor of a village schoolhouse. In the years between, he had metamorphosed from doctor to tramp to revolutionary, discovering his cause and his anti-yanqui resolve in the poverty of Guatemala and as one of the 18 survivors of Fidel Castro's incursion into Cuba. Reckless in promoting his Mao-esque brand of Marxism, he tried to make the Cuban model work in postcolonial Africa and elsewhere in Latin America, expecting that a small but dedicated band of operatives could enlist a burgeoning army of the exploited and overturn oppressive regimes. Anderson (coauthor of Guerrillas), a thorough researcher but a plodding writer, shows that Che found few converts to his religion of fanatical, selfless revolution. Bored with ministerial office in Castro's Cuba, he tried to transplant that country's success. He had a hard time accepting that courageous communist ideologues were rare and that exploited troops tended to melt away when victories didn't come easily. Through letters, speeches, unpublished diaries and numerous interviews, including one with Che's widow, sometimes in overwhelming detail and at daunting length, Anderson establishes as fact suppositions that the CIA's pursuit of Guevara was relentless and probably unnecessary. This huge biography will add to his iconic status. Illustrations not seen by PW.

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      Starred review from November 30, 2009
      The incredible life of the Cuban revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is documented in this thorough, compulsively engaging 1997 biography and inspiration for Steven Soderbergh's 2008 biopic. Beginning with Che's childhood in Argentina, Andersen covers every possible aspect of his subject's life—from Che's first encounter with Fidel and Raul Castro in Mexico City through the Cuban revolution to his failed attempt at reform in the African Congo—leaving no event, personal or political, unanalyzed. Armando Duran gives a brilliant performance that captures Che in all his contradictions. Duran displays his inherent acting ability in this reading that does full justice to the prose and never fails to captivate despite the near 37-hour length. A Grove Press hardcover.

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Anderson has had unprecedented access to the personal archives maintained by Guevara’s widow and carefully guarded Cuban government documents. He has conducted extensive interviews with Che’s comrades—some of whom speak here for the first time—and with the 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 state burial of the bones. Many...

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