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Summary: Excellent non-American view of Che's life
Review: A very thorough look at Che Guevara's entire life using many of his own words from speeches, diaries, and quotes from reliable sources. The book was written by a Mexican author so the American bias is erased. Much of the book details the Cuban Revolution and subsequent political development of Cuba under Castro.
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Summary: Alive.
Review: Che Guevara was here before he was born. Che Guevara is still here after his assasination. He represents the highest feelings andconcepts on justice, rebellion and freedom against any kind of tirany. That's why his photo is world-spread by palestinians, puertoricans, cubans, mexicans, germans, koreans. That's why his life of sacrifice and example can't never be erased. VOS SOS EL CAMINO, NOSOTROS LOS CAMINANTES.
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Summary: A review.
Review: Enlighten yourself, READ THIS BOOK
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Summary: The BEST one
Review: I read this book when first published in Spanish, then I read other books about Che. And, believe me, if you read only one, it should be this one. At last, an honest book about El Che!
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Summary: Great book, horrible editing
Review: I read this more because I am a fan of Taibo than because of Che, but I have read other biographies of Che and this is clearly the best I've seen - one of the best biographies I have read, in fact. He makes you feel as though you knew him yourself. This edition, at least, misses getting a five-star rating from me, however, due to the perfectly atrocious editing! There are literally hundreds of typos, misspellings, poorly phrased sentences, etc. It is very distracting.
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Summary: Mixed feelings
Review: I took the 1997 first edition of this book on a recent trip to Cuba, and have just now finished it. I hope the current paperback edition is better. The edition I read contained more typos and translation errors than any book I've ever read -- my estimate is at least 300 in number. A further deficiency in this book is the lack of maps, which makes following Che's Cuban campaign extremely confusing, and I never fully understood the campaign until I saw a map of it in Havana's Museum of the Revolution. The book is basically a chronological review of Che's life and at 600 pages it's an exhaustive review. Its unique feature is that all words attributed to Che are in bold print. There are a number of photographs, but the qualtiy of reproduction is poor. Despite these deficiencies, the book was a real page-turner and I recommend it for anyone who wants to understand one of the most remarkable men of the 20th Century. Possibly, you will find as I did, that in this case the man is actually bigger than the myth.
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Summary: Mixed feelings
Review: I took the 1997 first edition of this book on a recent trip to Cuba, and have just now finished it. I hope the current paperback edition is better. The edition I read contained more typos and translation errors than any book I've ever read -- my estimate is at least 300 in number. A further deficiency in this book is the lack of maps, which makes following Che's Cuban campaign extremely confusing, and I never fully understood the campaign until I saw a map of it in Havana's Museum of the Revolution. The book is basically a chronological review of Che's life and at 600 pages it's an exhaustive review. Its unique feature is that all words attributed to Che are in bold print. There are a number of photographs, but the qualtiy of reproduction is poor. Despite these deficiencies, the book was a real page-turner and I recommend it for anyone who wants to understand one of the most remarkable men of the 20th Century. Possibly, you will find as I did, that in this case the man is actually bigger than the myth.
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Summary: BUY IT!
Review: I was walking around wearing one of those 'Che' T-shirts and a guy asked me some questions about him. I felt pretty stupid not knowing more than I did. So I started reading about Che. That was 3 years ago.
I have read his diaries, speeches, FBI files, everything I could find....THIS was the BEST.
The author is truly a Che fan, but he still points out mistakes Che made, but the best thing is he provides everything in its context. He builds the background of where Che came from, what his life was. The reader FEELS 50's 60's Latin America so you can really emphasize with the actions and emotions of the integral characters.
Sum it up, even though it was a factual biography I still was totally engrossed reading 500 some pages in about 3 days, and still re-reading it.
A pleasure.
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Summary: reader
Review: I would recomend this book to anyone,however, I thought Anderson went into much greater detail regarding Che's travels throughout Latin america and especially, his discriptions of the once dominating United Fruit Company. I really enjoyed this authors discriptions of the autrocites commited by Batista and his sectet police, he was a brutal american, puppet dictator. How can any american actually belive that america has allways stook for freadom around the world.
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Summary: The Most Enjoyable of Che's Biographies
Review: In the US, Paco Taibo II is better known within the mystery readers' crowd for his accomplished police stories with a touch of irony and a shrewd writing style. For this reason with certain apprehension I started reading this biography. In fact it was the first complete and serious Che's bio I have ever read. Later I grabbed Jon Lee Anderson's one... Of all Che's bios Paco's is the most enchanting one. It may lack the huge documention of Anderson's book, but it compensates it with an amazing style. Paco cannot divorce his own admiration of Che from his subject, but, hey, that is exactly why this book becomes so much enjoyable. I still recall grabbing the book (700 hundred pages!) one morning and going that same night to bed with the book in my hands! I couldn't stop reading it! Che's story is reflected under the light of an amazing storyteller. The episodes of Che's story are exquisitely threaded together in a masterful way. His life becomes flesh and blood in Paco's hands. The icon, the symbol of rebellion and struggle for social justice turns a man, an incredible, passionate and admirable human being throughout the book. The end cannot be better: it is ghostly but hopeful with a lot of energy and sadness and beauty: a song to Latin American history of struggle.
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