Biography, History (Latin America) CHE GUEVARA A REVOLUTIONARY LIFE JON LEE ANDERSON A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE VILLAGE VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'S 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEA A BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE OF THE YEAR ONE OF NEWSDAY'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Ch le Guevara, the dan rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world the armed revolution. Jon Lee Anderson's biography traces Che's extraordinary life, from his comfortable Arge upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro's governm failed campaign in the Congo and assassination in the Bolivian junge. Anderson has had unprecedented access to the personal archives maintained by Guevara's widow and ca guarded Cuban government documents. He has conducted extensive interviews with Che's comrades-s whom speak here for the first time—-and with the CIA men and Bolivian officers who hunted him Anderson broke the story of where Guevara's body was buried, which led to the exhumation : the bones. Many of the details of Che's life have long been cloaked in secrecy and intrigue.

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