Che: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of a Revolutionary
Ernesto "Che" Guevara—medical doctor, chess player (he played Bobby Fischer by telephone in 1963), motorcycle rider, president of the Cuban National Bank, ruthless killer—would have celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday this June 14, had he lived. Instead, he was executed in the Bolivian jungle, captured leading a quixotic insurgency, a canonizing death that produced one of the era's most enduring plaster saints and symbols of revolutionary yearning. He has since been venerated and reviled in...
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Ernesto “Che” Guevara—medical doctor, chess player (he played Bobby Fischer by telephone in 1963), motorcycle rider, president of the Cuban National Bank, ruthless killer—would have celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday this June 14, had he lived. Instead, he was executed in the Bolivian jungle, captured leading a quixotic insurgency, a canonizing death that produced one of the era’s most enduring plaster saints and symbols of revolutionary yearning. He has since been venerated and reviled in dozens of biographies, memoirs, essays, and films. This most photogenic of all revolutionaries (himself a photographer) was also obsessively shot by Fidel’s court photographers —the serendipitous snap by Korda became the most reproduced photo of the age—from the Sierra Maestra to the Congo. Che was a prolific writer, too; and from his youthful Motorcycle Diaries, through nine volumes of essays and speeches, to the journal of his fatal Bolivian adventure, Che as much wrote the revolution as lived it. This anthology contains selections from Fidel Castro, Jon Lee Anderson, Mark Cooper, Regis Debray, Jorge Castaneda, Paco Taibo, Gary Hart (writing as John Blackthorn), Mary-Alice Waters, and many others. In addition, there are rare official and personal documents, letters, diary passages, and 50 black and white photographs.
Pt. 1Vagabond11The Making of a Revolutionary: A Memoir of the Young Guevara32From The Motorcycle Diaries193From Back on the Road47Pt. 2On the Road to Revolution594Letters615The Caribbean Storm816Mutual Affection957The Argentine1038Letters127Pt. 3Guerrilla1319From Guerrilla Warfare13310From Guevara, Also Known as Che15511Friends and Comrades187Pt. 4Castro's Brain19312The Supreme Prosecutor19513Individualism Must Disappear21514Ernesto (Che) Guevara: The "Red Dictator" Back of Castro22315Five Years of Castro's Cuba227Pt. 5American Revolutionary25716With Fidel, Neither Marriage Nor Divorce25917From The African Dream: The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo27718No Turning Back30919From The Complete Bolivian Diaries of Che Guevara, and Other Captured Documents31520Necessary Sacrifice325Pt. 6Death34721The Death of Che Guevara34922Guevara, Debray and the CIA35323The Execution of Che by the CIA35724Commander Guevara's Many Watches38525Che Guevara: "The Best Way to Die"389Pt. 7Icon39526Magical Death for a Magical Life39727Death and Influence40528The Spirit of Che Guevara41129A Memory and a Hope41730Images and Guests42531The Harsh Angel43132Goodbye to All That44333Ten Thousand Revolutions: Through South America, in Search of Che Guevara45934El Che Guevara: Cuba as Showcase or Spark477Permissions489
