Che Guevara. The Definitive Portrait Of One Of The Twentieth Century's Most Fascinating Historical Figures, By Critically-acclaimed New York Times Jou

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: BANTAM
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 1998
Edition: Reprint

Description: 814 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: He became a myth in his own lifetime and an international martyr-figure upon his death; he was a revolutionary fighter, a military strategist, a social philosopher, an economist, a medical doctor, and a friend and confidant of Fidel Castro. Che Guevaras dream was an epic one - to unite Latin America and the rest of the developing world through armed revolution, and to end once and for all the poverty, injustice and petty nationalisms that had bled it for centuries. In the end, Che failed in his quest but he is recognized as that one-in-a-million personality who just might have pulled it off. "Che A Revolutionary Life" shuttles between the revolutionary capitals of Havana and Algiers to the battlegrounds of Bolivia and the Congo; from the halls of power in Moscow and Washington to the exile havens of Miami, Mexico and Guatemala, in a gripping tale of revolution, international intrigue and covert operations. It has an epic sweep as it evokes an era of tumultuous change, describing major events like the Bay of Pigs invasion, the October Missile crisis and Kennedys assassination. Among its cast of characters are scores of historic personalities including Castro, Kennedy, Kruschev, Mao Tse-tung, Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, to name but a few. Jon Lee Anderson has been given unprecedented access to the Cuban Governments archives and has had total co-operation from Ches widow, Aleida March, who has never previously spoken for publication about her late husband. He has obtained hitherto unpublished documents, including several of Ches personal diaries and, in the course of his research, broke open a twenty-eight-year-old mystery - the whereabouts of Ches body in Bolivia. There is no doubt that this monumental work will stand as the definitive portrait of one of the twentieth centurys most fascinating, yet largely unexplored, historical figures.

ISBN: 9780553406641