Full name: Companero: The Life & Death of Che Guevara

Author: Jorge Castaneda Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, History, Non Fiction, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780679759409 0679759409

By the time he was killed in the jungles of Bolivia, where his body was displayed like a deposed Christ, Ernesto "Che" Guevara had become a synonym for revolution everywhere from Cuba to the barricades of Paris. This extraordinary biography peels aside the veil of the Guevara legend to reveal the charismatic, restless man behind it. Drawing on archival materials from three continents and on interviews with Guevara's family and associates, Castaneda follows Che from his childhood in the Argentine middle class through the years of pilgrimage that turned him into a committed revolutionary. He examines Guevara's complex relationship with Fidel Castro, and analyzes the flaws of character that compelled him to leave Cuba and expend his energies, and ultimately his life, in quixotic adventures in the Congo and Bolivia. A masterpiece of scholarship, Companero is the definitive portrait of a figure who continues to fascinate and inspire the world over. Similar books: Guevara, also known as Che by Paco Ignacio Taibo II Mellon by David Cannadine Carnegie by Peter Krass Seven Men by Eric Metaxas Morgan by Jean Strouse The Rockefellers by Peter Collier The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate The People's Tycoon by Steven Watts The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne de Courcy Clover Adams by Natalie Dykstra Mrs. Jordan's Profession by Claire Tomalin Che Guevara by Jon Lee Anderson Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan Mistress to an Age by J. Christopher Herold Harriet Beecher Stowe by Joan D. Hedrick America the Beautiful by Ben Carson Fear by Bob Woodward Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer The Amateur by Edward Klein