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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson

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Comprehensive look into the life and death of one of the most consequential figures of the mid-20th century in the Americas. Anderson portrays Guevara as a born-again Marxist, who always had a lingering suspicion of the United States but had no clear direction for that feeling until he came upon the socialist teachings as an adult that explained the contradictions he saw in lands of such wealth yet contained all the poverty he saw as a traveler and as a doctor. Guevara becomes a bit like an evangelist, trying to spread his teachings across the land with little concern for his own flesh.

A chronicle of idyllic sacrifice repeated over and over again by a man who did not accept the bounds of restraint or realpolitik even when practiced by his co-ideologues. A man who apotheosized through this sacrifice.