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James provides an in-depth look at the Latin American revolutionary's formative years, and proceeds to examine Guevara's successes and failures in his international battles, to his desperate hours as a dying soldier.

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What makes James's book interesting is that it gives readers not only a glimpse of a political attitude from the 1960s that is often overlooked, but also a view of Guevara that they will not get elsewhere. James's biography was, and remains, remarkable because of its point of view. He was frankly out to debunk Guevara's Myth.--Henry Butterfield Ryan

James has not only gone through the many anecdotal articles which have appeared over the years in Argentine, Mexican, and Cuban periodicals but has also spoken at length with Ché's first wife. The strongest parts of the book are the initial chapters with sketch Guevara's family background and the Argentina in which he grew to maturity… * Library Journal * Full of revealing details -- Selden Rodman * Saturday Review * What makes James's book interesting is that it gives readers not only a glimpse of a political attitude from the 1960s that is often overlooked, but also a view of Guevara that they will not get elsewhere. James's biography was, and remains, remarkable because of its point of view. He was frankly out to debunk Guevara's Myth. -- Henry Butterfield Ryan, from the Introduction

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Daniel James is the editor of The Complete Bolivian Diaries of Ché Guevara, also available from Cooper Square Press. Henry Butterfield Ryan is a retired foreign service officer, an associate of Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, and the author of The Fall of Ché Guevara. He lives in Washington, D. C.

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