Che Guevara by Jon Lee Anderson

Che Guevara by Jon Lee Anderson

This acclaimed national bestseller 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.

Anderson 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 his assassination in the Bolivian jungle

With unprecedented access to personal archives, government documents, and rare interviews, Anderson reveals many details of Che's life that 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.

Jon Lee Anderson began his career as a correspondent for the Lima Times in Peru in 1979. He covered Central America in the 1980s, first for syndicated columnist Jack Anderson and then for Time magazine. He's also the author of Guerillas: Travels in the Insurgent World, which he wrote for the New York Times, Nation, Harper's, Life, and the Nation.