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Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution

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CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY LIFE. By AndersonJon Lee. (New York: Grove, 1997. Pp. 814. $35.00 cloth.)

COMPAÑERO: THE UFE AND DEATH OF CHE GUEVARA. By CastañedaJorge G. (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1997. Pp. 456. $30.00 cloth.) Available in Spanish as COMPAÑERO: VIDA Y MUERTE DEL CHE GUEVARA. (New York: Vintage, 1998. Pp. 553. $16.00 paper.)

GUEVARA, ALSO KNOWN AS CHE. By TaiboPaco Ignacio II. (New York: St. Martin's, 1997. Pp. 691. $35.00 cloth.) Available in Spanish as ERNESTO GUEVARA, TAMBIEN CONOCIDO COMO EL CHE. (Mexico City: Benito Juárez, 1996. Pp. 860.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Matilde Zimmermann*
Affiliation:
Vassar College
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Notes

1. Dariel Alarcón Ramírez, Vie et mort de la révolution cubaine (Paris: Fayard, 1996); Elsa Blaquier Ascaño, Seguidores de un sueño (Havana: Verde Olivo); Jean Cormier, Mística y coraje: La vida del Che (Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, ca. 1997); Pierre Kalfon, Che, Ernesto Guevara: Une légende de siècle (Paris: Seuil, ca. 1997); Alberto Korda, Che: El álbum (Buenos Aires: Perfil Libros, 1997); Gustavo Parada Vaca, Los compañeros del Che Guevara (Santa Cruz, Bolivia: Sirena, 1997); Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith, Che Guevara and the FBI: The U.S. Politicai Police Dossier on the Latin American Revolutionary (Melbourne and New York: Ocean Press, 1997); Henry Ryan, The Fall of Che Guevara: A Tale of Soldiers, Spies, and Diplomats (London: Oxford University Press, 1998); and David Sandison, Che Guevara (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1997).

2. Luis Báez, Secretos de generales—desclasificado (Havana: Si-Mar, 1996).

3. “Mi modesto homenaje al Che: Entrevista exclusiva con el comandante Manuel Piñeiro Losada,” Tricontinental 31, no. 137 (July 1997):14-23; and “Inmortalidad del Che: Un reencuentro tricontinental con el comandante Manuel Piñeiro Losada,” Tricontinental 31, no. 138 (1997):41-49. In March 1998, Piñeiro was killed at the age of sixty-three in an automobile accident in Havana.

4. As reported in Granma, 18 Oct. 1997.

5. Ricardo Alarcón, “Che Continues to Instill Fear in the Oppressors,” The Militant 61, no. 36 (20 Oct. 1997):10.

6. Jorge G. Castañeda, Utopia Unarmed: The Latin American Left after the Cold War (New York: Knopf, 1993).

7. See Jon Lee Anderson, “Havana Journal: The Plague Years,” The New Yorker 74, no. 4 (26 Jan. 1998):62-68.

8. Christopher Hitchens, “Goodbye to All That,” New York Review of Books 44, no. 12 (17 July 1997):20-23.

9. Larry Rohter, “Recalling Che the Man But Not His Revolution,” New York Times Week in Review, 12 Oct. 1997, p. 4.

10. Thomas H. Lipscomb, “The Revised Che Guevara,” New York Times Week in Review, 26 Nov. 1995, p. 3.

11. One of the few books of a scholarly nature to appear between the early 1970s and the mid-1990s was Carlos Tablada Pérez, El pensamiento económico de Ernesto Che Guevara (Havana: Casa de las Americas, 1987).

12. Review by Russell W. Ramsey, Hispanic American Historical Review 76, no. 4 (Nov. 1996):826-28.