Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (Revised Edition)Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 20 avr. 2010 - 672 pages 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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... appearance that was deceptive, for he had an ebullient, gregarious personality, a hot temper, and an outsize imagination. He was the great-grandson of one of South America's richest men, and his ancestors included members of both the ...
... appearance that was deceptive, for he had an ebullient, gregarious personality, a hot temper, and an outsize imagination. He was the great-grandson of one of South America's richest men, and his ancestors included members of both the ...
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... appeared in public. Workers still had few rights, and strikes were often suppressed by gunfire and police batons. Criminals were transported by ship to serve terms of imprisonment in the cold southern wastes of Patagonia. But—with ...
... appeared in public. Workers still had few rights, and strikes were often suppressed by gunfire and police batons. Criminals were transported by ship to serve terms of imprisonment in the cold southern wastes of Patagonia. But—with ...
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... appeared to be, as she recalled many years later, “rich and elegant people.” Their rustic home by the river was a mansion to her. The Guevaras' honeymoon idyll, such as it was, did not last long. Within a few months, Celia's pregnancy ...
... appeared to be, as she recalled many years later, “rich and elegant people.” Their rustic home by the river was a mansion to her. The Guevaras' honeymoon idyll, such as it was, did not last long. Within a few months, Celia's pregnancy ...
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... appearing in the walls, and from his bed at night, Ernesto senior could see stars through a crack in his ceiling. Yet, for a builder, he was remarkably casual about the dangers. In the children's room, where another crack appeared, he ...
... appearing in the walls, and from his bed at night, Ernesto senior could see stars through a crack in his ceiling. Yet, for a builder, he was remarkably casual about the dangers. In the children's room, where another crack appeared, he ...
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... appearance concealed an inner world of turmoil. Months earlier, back in Villa María, he had confronted his crowded feelings in a free-verse poem written on four pages of small notepaper. The poem provides a rare look into the unsettled ...
... appearance concealed an inner world of turmoil. Months earlier, back in Villa María, he had confronted his crowded feelings in a free-verse poem written on four pages of small notepaper. The poem provides a rare look into the unsettled ...
Table des matières
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I Am Not the Person I Was Before | 91 |
Without Knowing Which Way Is North | 95 |
Finding North | 107 |
My Historic Duty | 405 |
We Are the Future and We Know It | 422 |
Individualism Must Disappear | 433 |
These Atomic Times | 471 |
Guerrilla Watershed | 507 |
The Long GoodBye | 563 |
The Story of a Failure | 596 |
No Turning Back | 637 |
Days without Shame or Glory | 123 |
A Terrible Shower of Cold Water | 141 |
My Proletarian Life | 152 |
God and His New Right Hand | 167 |
The Sacred Flame within Me | 183 |
A Disastrous Beginning | 205 |
Days of Water and Bombs | 225 |
Lean Cows and Horsemeat | 239 |
Enemies of All Kinds | 257 |
Extending the War | 286 |
The Final Push | 321 |
The Supreme Prosecutor | 359 |
Necessary Sacrifice | 669 |
Dreams and Curses | 711 |
Notes | 733 |
Sources | 749 |
Selected Bibliography | 757 |
Maps | 773 |
Chronology | 783 |
Acknowledgments | 789 |
Index | 793 |
Credits for Photographs | 819 |
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