num_pages: 421
description: The graphic adaptation of the groundbreaking and definitive biography of Che Guevara Che Guevara's legend is unmatched in the modern world. Since his assassination in 1967 at the age of thirty-nine the Argentine revolutionary has become an internationally recognized icon as revered as he is controversial. As a Marxist ideologue who sought to end global inequality by bringing down the American capitalist empire through armed guerrilla warfare Che has few rivals in the Cold War era as an apostle of revolutionary change. In Che: A Revolutionary Life Jon Lee Anderson and Jose Hernandez present the man behind the myth creating a complex and human portrait of this passionate idealist.Adapted from Jon Lee Anderson's definitive masterwork Che vividly transports us from young Ernesto's medical school days as a sensitive asthmatic to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution from his place of power alongside Castro to his disastrous sojourn in the Congo and his violent end in Bolivia. Through renowned Mexican artist Jose Hernandez's drawings we feel the bullets wing past the head of the young rebel in Cuba we smell the thick smoke of his and Castro's cigars and scrutinize his proud face as he's called Comandante for the first time. With astonishing precision color and drama Anderson and Hernandez's Che makes us a witness to the revolutionary life and times of Che Guevara.
language: English
title: Che: A Revolutionary Life
publisher: Penguin Press