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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

One of the Village Voice Literary Supplement’s 25 Favorite Books of the Year

A Booklist Editor’s Choice of the Year

One of Newsday’s Favorite Books of the Year

This acclaimed national best-seller 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.

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“Superb....Anderson does a masterly job in evoking Che’s complex character, in separating the man from the myth….[The book] is especially interesting for being written from a largely Cuban perspective.”—New York Times Book Review

“Excellent....admirably honest [and] staggeringly researched....It is unlikely that after Anderson’s exhaustive contribution, much more will be learned about Guevara.”—Los Angeles Times

“An enduring achievement. It is hard to imagine that any [other biography] will match the volume and detail of the research here....[Guevara’s] victories and failures, equally spectacular, are part of our common history….Che lives, not only in this book, but in the world.”—Boston Globe