Author: Ellen Labrecque
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 039954402X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Viva la revolución! Find out how Che Guevara--a doctor turned communist leader and much more than a face on a T-shirt--ended up paying the ultimate price for his cause. His very image has become associated with a spirit of rebellion, but Ernesto Guevara--known around the world simply as Che--didn't dream of becoming a revolutionary. Author Ellen Labrecque takes readers on a journey through Che's life starting with his childhood in Argentina, to his travels through South and Central America as a young physician, and ending with his final years as a key player in the Cuban revolution. His legacy--as the author of The Motorcycle Diaries, a champion of the poor, and a force for change in Cuba--is both personal and political.

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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385059747
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Author: Pietro Urbani
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Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Author: Paulo Drinot
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822391805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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Ernesto “Che” Guevara twice traveled across Latin America in the early 1950s. Based on his accounts of those trips (published in English as The Motorcycle Diaries and Back on the Road), as well as other historical sources, Che’s Travels follows Guevara, country by country, from his native Argentina through Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela, and then from Argentina through Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico. Each essay is focused on a single country and written by an expert in its history. Taken together, the essays shed new light on Che’s formative years by analyzing the distinctive societies, histories, politics, and cultures he encountered on these two trips, the ways they affected him, and the ways he represented them in his travelogues. In addition to offering new insights into Guevara, the essays provide a fresh perspective on Latin America’s experience of the Cold War and the interplay of nationalism and anti-imperialism in the crucial but relatively understudied 1950s. Assessing Che’s legacies in the countries he visited during the two journeys, the contributors examine how he is remembered or memorialized; how he is invoked for political, cultural, and religious purposes; and how perceptions of him affect ideas about the revolutions and counterrevolutions fought in Latin America from the 1960s through the 1980s. Contributors Malcolm Deas Paulo Drinot Eduardo Elena Judith Ewell Cindy Forster Patience A. Schell Eric Zolov Ann Zulawski

Author: Michael J. Casey
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307807657
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto Korda captured fabled revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in what has become history's most reproduced photo. Here Michael Casey tells the remarkable story of this image, detailing its evolution from a casual snapshot to an omnipresent graphic—plastered on everything from T-shirts to vodka to condoms—and into a copyrighted brand. As Casey follows it across the Americas and through cyberspace, he finds governments exploiting it and their dissenters attacking it, merchants selling it and tourists buying it. We see how this image is, ultimately, a mercurial icon that still ignites passion—and a reflection of how we view ourselves.

Author: Humberto Fontova
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781595230270
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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FONTOVA/EXPOSING THE REAL CHE GUEVA

Author: Mary Philadelphia Merrifield
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Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Author: Mary Philadelphia Merrifield
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Category : Artists' materials
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Author: William Roscoe
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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Author: Mary Philadelphia Merrifield
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Category : Artists' materials
Languages : en
Pages : 610

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