Che Guevara.
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M. Muñoz · AI-narrated by Martin (from Google)
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Few images in history have achieved the global ubiquity of Alberto Korda's 1960 photograph of Ernesto "Che" Guevara — the high-contrast face that stares from T-shirts, posters, murals, and coffee mugs on every continent, in almost every country, across more than six decades. It is the most reproduced photograph in history. It is also, in its very ubiquity, one of history's most effective acts of erasure: the more the image spreads, the more the actual man behind it disappears.This book is a rigorous, honest biography of that actual man — not the romantic icon, and not the demonized cold-blooded killer of the opposing mythology, but the genuinely complex human being whose life contained both extraordinary courage and troubling brutality, both visionary idealism and catastrophic misjudgment. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was born in 1928 to an upper-middle-class Argentine family, suffered from severe asthma from infancy, trained as a physician, crossed Latin America twice on motorcycle and foot, and arrived in Mexico City in 1954 as a politicized exile convinced that the only response to American imperialism in Latin America was armed revolution.The story that follows — the all-night conversation with Fidel Castro that changed his life, the disastrous Granma landing, the guerrilla campaign in the Sierra Maestra, the capture of Santa Clara that ended the Batista dictatorship, his role in post-revolutionary Cuba including the controversial executions at La Cabaña, his tenure as Minister of Industry, his mysterious disappearance from Cuba in 1965, the failed Congo mission, and the final, doomed guerrilla campaign in Bolivia that ended with his execution on October 9, 1967 — is one of the twentieth century's most consequential and most debated lives.Drawing on Guevara's own diaries, letters, and speeches, as well as the best of the historical scholarship produced since the opening of Cuban and Soviet archives, this biography offers readers an encounter with the real Che Guevara: as complex, as human, and as genuinely deserving of serious thought as the extraordinary and contradictory life he actually lived.
Few images in history have achieved the global ubiquity of Alberto Korda's 1960 photograph of Ernesto "Che" Guevara — the high-contrast face that stares from T-shirts, posters, murals, and coffee mugs on every continent, in almost every country, across more than six decades. It is the most reprod...
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