Book DescriptionErnesto "Che" Guevaramedical doctor, chess player (he played Bobby Fischer by telephone in 1963), motorcycle rider, president of the Cuban National Bank, ruthless killerwould have celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday this June 14, had he lived Instead, he was executed in the Bolivian jungle, captured leading озогф a quixotic insurgency, a canonizing death that produced one of the eras 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 Fidels court photographers the serendipitous snap by Korda became the mostreproduced photo of the agefrom 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.  Уникальная2004 г 304 стр ISBN 1560255196.